Leveraging Complexity in Great-Power Competition and Warfare: Volume 1, An Initial Exploration of How Complex Adaptive Systems Thinking can Frame Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract

A key concern for the U.S. Air Force is the ability to leverage multidomain operations (MDOs) to U.S. advantage both in competition and in warfighting. Multidomain actions are viewed as imposing complexity on the adversary's decision process. But what does complexity mean in an Air Force context?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1146080

Entities

People

  • Matthew Sargent
  • Parousia Rockstroh
  • Sherrill Lingel
  • Tim Mcdonald
  • Timothy R. Gulden

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Systems
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Case Studies
  • Combat Readiness
  • Competition
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Delphi Method
  • Literature Surveys
  • Markov Chains
  • Military Research
  • Probability
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Strategic Security Studies