If the United States military hopes to fight and win in a future information environment dominated by new media it must fully understand both the opportunities and challenges of that environment. This includes the ability to exploit new media to…
The “human singularity” refers to the integration of technology into the human body so that levels of mental acuity and physical ability eclipse all previous known levels. This monograph deals with novel models of leadership and associated skills which will…
Counterfactual reasoning is the process of evaluating conditional claims about alternate possibilities and their consequences. This monograph discusses the need for a comprehensive system of counterfactual reasoning to establish whether underlying assumptions are plausible. Such a system would have immense…
Since the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina the importance of emergency response planning and execution has risen significantly. The goal of any emergency response is to assess, react, and recover from an emergency so that local communities can resume normal…
The 2007 Proteus Workshop Report provides a detailed discussion of the highlights and proceedings of the workshop held 14-16 August 07 at the Center for Strategic Leadership, USAWC. The event, centered on examining future complex security issues through creative and…
When then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was making this statement: “Today we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror,” the RAND journal Studies in Conflict and Terrorism was already attempting…
Executive Summary: Intelligence, Information Operations (IO) and Strategic Communication (SC) require a deep cultural and contextual understanding of our adversaries and, in some cases, our allies. They also require a deep understanding of our own cultural biases, so that we…
The Proteus Management Group conducted its first futures academic workshop August 22-24, 2006 at the Center for Strategic Leadership. This highly successful workshop brought together interested international leaders and scholars from across various government, military, intelligence, academic and business communities…
The Information in Warfare Working Group (I2WG) of the United States Army War College is pleased to present this anthology of selected student work from Academic Year 2006 representing examples of well-written and in-depth analyses on the vital subject of…