Thought Systems and Network Centric Warfare

Abstract

The notion of Thought Warfare and Anti-Warfare (TWAW) has been introduced in earlier work as a way of thinking about future military conflict and its avoidance. TWAW involves the dynamic interaction of allies' and adversaries' Thought Systems. Current Thought Systems involve entities capable of cognition, emotion and volition - typically (groups of) people - interacting via networks of information and data systems. This paper summarizes a conceptualisation, ie a system of ideas, of the domain of Thought Systems. The relationship between TWAW and Network Centric Warfare (NCW) is explained: TWAW encompasses NCW. Unlike NCW, TWAW explicitly considers the interaction of will and feelings as well as knowledge, information and data in networked systems of people and machines in both the conduct of war and in the maintenance of peace. This affords various new insights that may be of significance to the NCW community.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA380985

Entities

People

  • Martin D. Burke

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Cognition
  • Consciousness
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • Knowledge Management
  • Language
  • Mental Processes
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • Thinking
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Gender and Food Studies
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Systems Analysis and Design