Complexity, Networking, and Effects-Based Operations

Abstract

Effects-Based Operations (EBO) are the coordinated sets of actions directed at shaping the behavior of friends, foes, and neutrals in peace, crisis, and war. Actions create effects on the observer that are cumulative, interrelated, physical and psychological. These form a continuum. This has implications for Network Centric Operations, demanding options, not answers; knowledge mobilization, not database management; and agility and adaptation, not stock plans. EBO imposes moving from networks to networking, in order to support the man in the loop.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA472039

Entities

People

  • Edward A. Smith

Organizations

  • Boeing

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Adaptive Systems
  • Attrition
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Databases
  • Directives
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • International Security
  • Judgment
  • Military Operations
  • Military Separation
  • Observers
  • Resilience
  • Security
  • Tool Kits
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Strategic Security Studies