List of military writers The following is a list of military writers, alphabetical by last name: A[edit] Sidney Allinson – Canadian military historian, The Bantams: The Untold Story Of World War One, Kruger's Gold: A novel of the Anglo-Boer WarStephen AmbroseAlberto Bayo – Latin American revolutionary, A Manual of Guerrilla Warfare B[edit] C[edit] D[edit] E[edit] F[edit] G[edit] H[edit] J[edit] K[edit] L[edit] M[edit] N[edit] P[edit] R[edit] S[edit] Sigismund von Schlichting – 19th century infantry theoristSebastien le Prestre de VaubanThomas SchellingRichard Simpkin – military theoristVasily SokolovskyHew Strachan – military historianSun Bin – claimed descent from Sun Tzu, and was considered Sun Tzu II, Sun Bin Bing FaSun Tzu – general, The Art of WarAlexander Suvorov – general, The Science of Victory T[edit] V[edit] W[edit] X[edit] Z[edit] Zhuge Liang – strategist from The Three Kingdoms era, Thirty-Six Stratagems See also[edit]
Operations Planning Process Advanced Decision Support Advanced Decision Support Tools embedded into Collaborative Operations Planning Systems (COPlanS) Center of Gravity Analysis Decisive Point Analysis Risk Management Criteria Management Dynamic Link Management Decision-Matrix Management Plan Management What is OPP-ADS? Operations Planning Process Advanced Decision Support (OPP-ADS) is a suite of advanced decision-support tools added to Collaborative Operations Planning Systems (COPlanS) to support operational planning as part of a Joint, Net-Enabled Collaborative Environment to achieve Decision Superiority. OPP-ADS supports planners in the design of campaign plans as well as in the use of contingency plans to reduce the time required to produce executable plans. OPP-ADS Functions Technology and Interoperability OPP-ADS tools are embedded into COPlanS. Execution Management and Plan Adaptation (EMPA): EMPA monitors the plans developed by COPlanS. Procedural interaction with other JCDS21 tools is also possible. The Way Ahead For more information
Negative feedback Simple feedback model. The feedback is negative if AB < 0 Negative feedback occurs when the result of a process influences the operation of the process itself in such a way as to reduce changes. Negative feedback tends to make a system self-regulating; it can produce stability and reduce the effect of fluctuations. Negative feedback is widely used in mechanical and electronic engineering, but it also occurs naturally within living organisms, and can be seen in many other fields from chemistry and economics to social behaviour and the climate. History[edit] Early researchers in the area of cybernetics subsequently generalised the idea of negative feedback to cover any goal-seeking or purposeful behavior.[9] All purposeful behavior may be considered to require negative feed-back. The information fed back to the control center tends to oppose the departure of the controlled from the controlling quantity... Overview[edit] Feedback loops in the human body Use[edit] Mechanical engineering[edit]
The 33 Strategies of War Reception In the book Greene reveals that "Afghanistan was rich in natural gas and other minerals and had ports on the Indian Ocean".[14] The political tales in the book are said to be "mostly foolish or just plain wrong".[15] The book has "far too many duff sentences",[5] for example: "Your goal is to blend philosophy and war, wisdom and battle, into an unbeatable blend. It has sold more than 200,000 copies.[17] See also References Notes Jump up ^ Greene, Robert, "The 33 Strategies of War", Viking Adult, 2006Jump up ^ "The 33 Strategies of War, by Robert Greene". External links 33 Strategies of War interview featuring Robert Greene Operations Recursion A visual form of recursion known as the Droste effect. The woman in this image holds an object that contains a smaller image of her holding an identical object, which in turn contains a smaller image of herself holding an identical object, and so forth. Formal definitions Recursion in a screen recording program, where the smaller window contains a snapshot of the entire screen. In mathematics and computer science, a class of objects or methods exhibit recursive behavior when they can be defined by two properties: A simple base case (or cases)A set of rules that reduce all other cases toward the base case For example, the following is a recursive definition of a person's ancestors: One's parents are one's ancestors (base case).The ancestors of one's ancestors are also one's ancestors (recursion step). The Fibonacci sequence is a classic example of recursion: Many mathematical axioms are based upon recursive rules. Informal definition In language Recursive humor Recursion, see Recursion.[5] 0 is in
The 48 Laws of Power Background[edit] Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in The 48 Laws of Power while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history.[5] In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers.[4][8] Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and six months later, Elffers requested that Greene write a treatment.[4] Although Greene was unhappy in his current job, he was comfortable and saw the time needed to write a proper book proposal as too risky.[10] However, at the time Greene was rereading his favorite biography about Julius Caesar and took inspiration from Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon River and fight Pompey, thus inciting the Great Roman Civil War.[10] Greene would follow Caesar's example and write the treatment, which later became The 48 Laws of Power.[10] He would note this as the turning point of his life.[10]
Air Force: JSF Will Redefine Age Old Doctrine for Fighters The advent and upcoming operational use of new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)-aircraft cockpit information technology is likely to generate new paradigms for implementing the widely known Observe, Orient, Decide, Act OODA-loop concept made famous in the 1970’s by former Air Force Fighter Pilot Col. John Boyd, Air Force officials said. Boyd, who flew F-86 Sabre aircraft during the Korean War and went on to be a military theorist and Pentagon consultant, conceived of the OODA-loop notion as a method of winning a dogfight against an enemy fighter jet by, in part, more quickly anticipating fast-changing circumstances, orienting, observing, deciding and “acting.” These days, the fusing of sensor, weapons and electronic data made available to fighter pilots and air crews – in conjunction with the rapid integration with numerous mobile command and control centers — provides new areas of application upon which to utilize or apply the OODA-loop paradigm, said Lt. Tagged as: air force , F-35 , JSF
Local oscillator In electronics, a local oscillator (LO) is an electronic oscillator used with a mixer to change the frequency of a signal. This frequency conversion process, also called heterodyning, produces the sum and difference frequencies from the frequency of the local oscillator and frequency of the input signal. Processing a signal at a fixed frequency gives a radio receiver improved performance. In many receivers, the function of local oscillator and mixer is combined in one stage called a "converter" - this reduces the space, cost, and power consumption by combining both functions into one active device. Applications[edit] Local oscillators are used in the superheterodyne receiver, the most common type of radio receiver circuit. Performance requirements[edit] Application of local oscillators in a receiver design requires care to ensure no spurious signals are radiated. Types of LO[edit] Unintended LO emissions[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
Digital strategy In the fields of strategic management, marketing strategy and business strategy, digital strategy is the process of specifying an organization's vision, goals, opportunities and initiatives in order to maximize the business benefits of digital initiatives to the organization. These can range from an enterprise focus, which considers the broader opportunities and risks that digital potentially creates (e.g., changes in the publishing industry) and often includes customer intelligence, collaboration, new product/market exploration, sales and service optimization, enterprise technology architectures and processes, innovation and governance; to more marketing and customer-focused efforts such as web sites, mobile, eCommerce, social, site and search engine optimization, and advertising. Overview[edit] Identifying the key opportunities and/or challenges in a business[edit] Stakeholder interviews Competitor analysis Heuristic evaluation Features/functionality analysis Financial analysis Roadmap
The Real Origins of Realpolitik IN 1934, a young British historian published his first book, The Italian Problem in European Diplomacy, 1847–1849. In it, he announced that a nation’s foreign policy “is based upon a series of assumptions, with which statesmen have lived since their earliest years and which they regard as so axiomatic as hardly to be worth stating.” It was the duty of the historian, he wrote, “to clarify these assumptions and to trace their influence upon the course of every-day policy.” By that apodictic verdict A. J. P. For what does this portentous Teutonic word actually mean and what implications, if any, does it hold for the assumptions of contemporary Western statesmen? The reasons for the most recent return of realpolitik are no mystery. As periodically happens when the world becomes a more challenging place, a slew of new books on Niccolò Machiavelli have appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, including offerings by Jonathan Powell (Tony Blair’s former chief of staff) and Philip Bobbitt.