Visualizing War Visual Technologies and Military Campaign Planning

Abstract

The School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) uses commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software (Microsoft PowerPoint) as a medium for conveying military campaign plans. According to SAMS users, this visual method is limited in that it represents events, concepts and information in a singular fashion, i.e. it leads users and audiences to linear and sequential conceptions of battlespace and decision-making. The general problem of information conveyance has been the subject of previous research in the systems analysis, decision theory, and communications fields and presents itself as a critical field of study for military and business applications. What other visual technologies will enable users/planners to depict and communicate a plurality of ideas, concepts of simultaneity and concomitant event relationships?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA517446

Entities

People

  • Richard D. Paz

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Personnel
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Decision Theory
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Military Operations
  • Military Planning
  • New York
  • Operating Systems
  • Students
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Websites

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Software Engineering.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.