Command and Control in the Information Age : Representing Its Impact

Since the 1990s the world has witnessed the end of the Cold War and the dawn of the information age.

Such huge changes in the political and military climate have altered many lives and led to great intellectual challenges.

Within such a context, how might high-level models and methods of analysis be developed so that government decision-makers will be guided in the right direction?

The analysis of military command and control is central to such a consideration since it is this that capitalizes on information and yields the force flexibility to cope with the unknowns of the post-Cold War environment.

An approach to such modelling, which demonstrates that it is possible to capture these effects, is presented in this text.

Many of these ideas have already been incorporated into the new generation of models under development in the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).

Such models will play a key role in helping to shape future UK defence capability and policy.

Thus, this book is aimed at all those with a interest or a stake in such issues.