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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"asymmetric warfare"”.
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David versus Goliath: The Power of Weakness in Asymmetric Warfare—Lessons from History
… their national interests. Unconventional warfare, and its subsets of terrorism and insurgency, should—given these circumstances, end in VNA failure. Sometimes, however, VNAs find success. By comparing the literature on historical and current case studies, I propose that a set of …
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An analysis of China's information technology strategies and their implications for US national security
… in the military affairs (RMA) by focusing on asymmetric warfare capabilities under high-tech conditions. China definitely believes that asymmetric warfare operations have the advantage of creating a more smart attack style to avoid directly facing U.S. powerful military strength. In summary, …
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Urban Insurgency and the Search for a Solution: United States Counterinsurgency Strategy for the Twenty-First Century
… provides for the insurgent who employs asymmetric warfare, making designing an urban COIN doctrine particularly important. Despite its significance, little doctrine exists for urban COIN, and the conventional culture of the U.S. military is resistant to the development of such doctrine. …
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Optimization-based allocation of force protection resources in an asymmetric environment
… devices. This enemy tactic is characteristic of asymmetric warfare, in which a lesser opponent opposes a force far superior in numbers, equipment, and technology. In an asymmetric operating environment, threats blend in with the local populace making them hard to detect and are easily capable of …
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Intelligence architecture in the Hungarian Special Operations Forces
… intelligence becomes even more important in asymmetric warfare. The role of the SOF in the collection of important information in theater requires a robust intelligence architecture at the unit level. The final goal should be the complete integration of SOF-based intelligence into the …
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Enabling tactical autonomy for unmanned surface vehicles in defensive swarm engagements
… to reduce the vulnerability of allied assets to asymmetric warfare. This work utilizes distributed decentralized multi-objective optimization in the Mission Oriented Operating Suite with Interval Programming (MOOS-IvP) to enable a number of simulated unmanned surface vehicles (USV) to provide …
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Killing at a Distance in a Post-Panoptic Society
… I investigate the US military's use of drones in warfare, specifically in terms of distance and what that entails for the operator physically, mentally, and emotionally. My analysis will address the question: how are remotely piloted aircrafts connecting distance and humanity in asymmetric …
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Fourth Generation Warfare: America's Challenge in the Twenty-First Century
Throughout the history of civilization, warfare has undergone a number of evolutions. Given societal, technological and political shifts, these evolutions have been undertaken in the hope of offsetting particular strategic advantages held by particular adversaries. As the world finds itself in the …
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Demonstration of passive acoustic detection and tracking of unmanned underwater vehicles
… smart mining. Today, they play a major role in asymmetric warfare, as UUVs have attributes that are desirable for less-established navies. They are covert, easy to deploy, low-cost, and low-risk to personnel. The concern of protecting against UUVs of malicious intent is that existing defense …
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Strategic Theory, Methodology, Air Power, and Coercion in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War
… He who adapts fastest often wins in asymmetric warfare.
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Demonstration of passive acoustic detection and tracking of unmanned underwater vehicles
… smart mining. Today, they play a major role in asymmetric warfare, as UUVs have attributes that are desirable for less-established navies. They are covert, easy to deploy, low-cost, and low-risk to personnel. The concern of protecting against UUVs of malicious intent is that existing defense …
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Event prediction for modeling mental simulation in naturalistic decision making
… Cold War environment and increasingly important asymmetric warfare scenarios. Although improvements in computer technology support more and more detailed representations, human decision making is still far from being automated in a realistic way. Many "decisions" within a simulation are based on …
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A multidisciplinary approach to complex systems design
… to success for conventional force structures in asymmetric warfare, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom. The second example analyses the capability development process, which is responsible for transforming the security needs of Government into equipment purchasing decisions. The analysis produces …
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Asymmetric Strategies and Asymmetric Threats: A Structural-realist Critique of Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 2004-2014
… The unique security dilemma presented by the asymmetrical threat of terrorism and the asymmetrical response of drone strikes necessitates the continued evolution of neorealism as an IR theory.
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From a slave to a critical-thinker-artistic-writer: Emancipating a professional's anthill using action research professional practice with information systems professionals as the crux: Gnothe se auton non, j regrette rien die lichtung and all the world's a stage
… I can relate to the current situation of asymmetric warfare (note the picture of a fighter plane dropping a bomb with the word "hacker" under), asymmetric industrial relations, and some other forms of the master-relationship relationship. In my career as an information systems' …
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Toward an effective and humane counterinsurgency
Preliminary research isolated a set of thirteen candidate principles that military officers need to understand to conduct effective and humane counterinsurgency. A meta-synthesis of eight classical theorists of counterinsurgency sought support for and consensus on these principles and discovered …
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Understanding Russian Hybrid Warfare: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Soviet Active Measures and Russian New Generation Warfare
Russian Hybrid Warfare is a popular Western term for contemporary Kremlin operations that directly target adversaries without conventional force. Often described as the mistaken "Gerasimov Doctrine" or "New Generation Warfare," Russian Hybrid Warfare operations utilize unconventional tactics to …