DA3101 Conflict in the Information Age

With the advent of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Robotics, the "Information Age" has entered a new phase. These changes demand rethinking future military and security policy and the subsequent war fighting and competition strategies that are required for a successful national security. While significant attention is focused upon information technologies, the principal emphasis in this course lies in an endeavor to understand the ways in which new technologies affect military strategy, doctrine, and organization. In particular the rise of networked organizations, non-linear military operations, and irregular warfare conducted by both Special Operations Forces and Conventional Forces. Prerequisites: None.

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Improve understanding of how traditional notions of strategy may or may not be applicable to current in future military operations that deal with insurgency, terrorism, social revolution, subversion, use of proxies, and other forms of offensive irregular warfare employed in competition and conflict at the state and sub-state levels.
Improve understanding of how information, as one of the core elements in the traditional DIME Model (Diplomacy, Information, Military, Economics) may, under certain conditions, be the primary decider in any strategic competition and conflict.