Artificial War

Artificial War
Author: Andrew Ilachinski
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 962
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789812562401


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Military conflicts, particularly land combat, possess thecharacteristics of complex adaptive systems: combat forces arecomposed of a large number of nonlinearly interacting parts and areorganized in a dynamic command-and-control network; local action, which often appears disordered, self-organizes into long-range order;military conflicts, by their nature, proceed far from equilibrium;military forces adapt to a changing combat environment; and there isno master voice that dictates the actions of every soldier (i