An Ontology of Modern Conflict : Including Conventional Combat and Unconventional Conflict (Understanding Complex Systems)

§16§§§§This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict. Modern conflict is a complex adaptive system. As such, it exhibits emergent properties, or properties that are not predictable from simple descriptions of the system. §16§ts are made concrete. §04§Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. §02§§DEAN S. HARTLEY III is the Principal of Hartley Consulting. He is also the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Vice President of Sisyphus Energy, Inc. (SEI). Hartley is a past Vice President of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), a Director of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), past President of the Military Applications Society (MAS), and a member of the INFORMS Simulation Society (ISIM).§ §