A C2 System for 'Winning hearts and Minds': Tools for Confrontation and Collaboration Analysis

Abstract

Asymmetric campaigns since the end of the Cold War have tended to have a brief war-fighting phase followed by a cultural phase in which victory is achieved by winning the hearts and minds of diverse ethnic and national groups that may side with us or with extremists. Actual fighting is limited to the tactical level; its strategic significance, like that of other operations, is in the political-psychological domain rather than the physical. It lies in whether it sends the right message to the right people, and makes it credible to them. This paper outlines a command and control system for managing the messages sent by a force (in words or in deeds) with the objective of winning hearts and minds. The system is supported by a new commercial, off-the-shelf software package called Confrontation Manager.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA464500

Entities

People

  • Andrew Tait
  • George W. Norwood
  • Mary Crannell
  • Nigel Howard

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Behavioral Disciplines And Activities
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Democracy
  • Group Dynamics
  • Information Operations
  • Military Operations
  • Psychology
  • Rejection
  • Security
  • Teamwork

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

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