Author : Andrew Ilachinski
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 401/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Artificial War by : Andrew Ilachinski
Download or read book Artificial War written by Andrew Ilachinski. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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