The Analysis of Societal Warfare.

Abstract

This thesis develops an adaptive structure for analyzing problems involving sociotechnical systems in the context of societal warfare. The structure, called the Modular Analysis Process (MAP), has been designed to help solve problems that require policy and/or systems analysis approaches to evaluate. The MAP can be used to analyze the impact of alternative designs on a complex system's architecture, (say, to its doctrines, machines, procedures, organizational structure, etcetera), in relationship to a scenario and mission. The MAP helps the analyst to efficiently develop cost-effective solutions to problems. Most of this thesis examples pertain either to the area of command and control (C2) above the theater command level or to strategic C2.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA186009

Entities

People

  • Kevin G. Briggs

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Iran
  • Middle East
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Political Systems
  • Security
  • Systems Analysis
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control