Complexity and Military Strategic Thought Balancing Order and Chaos

Abstract

Today's complex, interdependent global community has been thrust into a period of discontinuity, rapid change and uncertainty. No longer able to predict picture events with any degree of certainty, countries are desperately searching for new and innovative strategies to match limited means to ambiguous ends. This is especially true for the United States, which has been profoundly affected by two major events.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA441455

Entities

People

  • Tony Laird

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Pollution
  • Boundaries
  • Cold War
  • Complex Systems
  • Concept 1
  • Environment
  • Human Population
  • Molecules
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Phase Transformations
  • Transitions
  • Uncertainty
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design