Destabilization of Adversarial Organizations with Strategic Interventions

Abstract

Destabilization of adversarial organizations is crucial to combating terrorism. The adversarial organizations are complex adaptive systems, which include different types of entities and links to perform complex tasks and evolve over-time to adapt to changing situations. Both the complexity and the adaptivity of the adversary make it difficult for friendly forces to destabilize the adversary and to damage the performance of the adversary's organization. The commander desires to identify the terrorists command structure, key leader; assess their capability; and identify weaknesses; current technologies do not support these desires. At best, the commander might know historic activities, and most of the web of connections among known terrorists.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA492510

Entities

People

  • Ii-chul Moon

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Human Behavior
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Regression Analysis
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Terrorists
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design