Monday, July 28, 2008

Does NCW Include Social-Cognitive?

After 3+ years of reading NCW literature, I'm starting to wonder if I just imagined that "The Implementation of Network Centric Warfare" has diagrams delineating four domains: Information, Social, Cognitive, and Physical.

Much of what is written either ignores the Social and Cognitive, or decries its absence. The latest item I've run ("Unintended Consequences of the Network Centric Decision Making Model") across falls into the latter category. It's actually a couple of years old, but it's a good critique of why NCW must include the Social and Cognitive domains. If you're still unconvinced, go read the various online books by Garstka and/or Alberts which provide a more abstract rationale (e.g. "Understanding Command and Control").

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