Cognitive Savagery: Using Science Metaphors to Understand Complex Problems and Enable Force Structure Design

Abstract

Understanding the modern character of global issues and designing solutions to maintain national power requires informative multi-disciplinary methods bounded in durable metaphors. While the method hypothesized applies to all levels and types of decision-making, the warfighter can use the metaphors of hard and soft science bound to institutional tenets to better design methods of threat assessment, force generation and training, procurement and equipping, and the ultimate selection and application of will-influencing military force.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 02, 2016
Accession Number
AD1176159

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