Publications

2 April 2008
Australian Defence Force
Researcher

The Reflective Military Practitioner

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1 June 2007
adaptation
adaptive campaigning
Australian Defence Force
complex systems theory
Information flow
Lessons learned
Methodology
Practitioner

Adapting C2 to the 21st Century: Operationalising Adaptive Campaigning Topics

Author: Alex Ryan Abstract: For highly complex missions, it is not realistic to expect to…

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1 July 2006
adaptation
Asymmetric warfare
Australian Defence Force
complex systems theory
multi-scale perspective
Researcher

About the bears and the bees: Adaptive responses to asymmetric warfare

Author: Alex Ryan  Abstract: Conventional military forces are organised to generate large scale effects against…

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2 October 2005
Researcher
US Armed Forces

Principles of War as Paradox

Author: Christopher Paparone Download PDF

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1 April 2004
Australian Defence Force
Researcher

Hybrid Complex Adaptive Engineered Systems: A case study in defence

Author: Alex Ryan Introduction Excerpt: While the beginnings of understanding warfare as a complex adaptive systems…

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22 October 2003
adaptation
Australian Defence Force
complex systems theory
defence systems
Researcher
system design

Designing Complex Adaptive Systems for Defence

Author: Alex Ryan Abstract: The complexity of defence systems has grown rapidly in recent years and…

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