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Feature Books                    Updated 31 Dec 2005 Swarming & The Future of Conflict Swarm Intelligence, From Natural to Artificial Systems Swarming is a seemingly amorphous, but deliberately structured, coordinated, strategic way to perform military strikes from all directions. It employs a sustainable pulsing of force and/or fire that is directed from both close-in and stand-off positions. It will work best--perhaps it will only work--if it is designed mainly around the deployment of myriad, small, dispersed, networked maneuver units. This calls for an organizational redesign--involving the creation of platoon-like "pods" joined in company-like"clusters"--that would keep but retool the most basic military unit structures. It is similar to the corporate redesign principle of "flattening," which often removes or redesigns middle layers of management. This has proven successful in the ongoing revolution in business affairs and may prove equally useful in the military realm. From command and control ofline units to logistics, profound shifts will have to occur to nurture this new "way of war."This study examines the benefits--and also the costs and risks--of engaging in such serious doctrinal change. The emergence of a military doctrine based on swarming pods and clusters requires that defense policymakers develop new approaches to connectivity and control and achieve a new balance between the two. Far more than traditional approachesto battle, swarming clearly depends upon robust information flows. Securing these flows, therefore, can be seen as a necessary condition for successful swarming. Social insects - bees, termites, and wasps - can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents, this intelligence lies in the networks of interactions among individuals and between individuals and the environment. Social insects are also a metaphor for artificial intelligence, and the problems they solve - finding food, dividing labour among nestmates, building nests, responding to external challenges - have important counterparts in engineering and computer science. This text provides a detailed look at models of social insect behaviour and how to apply these models in the design of complex systems. It shows how these models replace an emphasis on control, preprogramming, and centralization with designs featuring autonomy, emergence, and distributed functioning. These designs are proving immensely flexible and robust, able to adapt quickly to changing environments and to continue functioning even when individual elements fail. In particular, these designs are an approach to the tremendous growth of complexity in software and information. This book provides a rigorous look at the mechanisms underlying collective behavior in social insects. The field is developing rapidly, and the book includes up-to-date research from biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, and computer graphics. Webmaster's Notes: More Information:

Previous Feature Books in alphabetical order Berg, Scott A.: Lindbergh Clancy, Tom: Every Man a Tiger - The Gulf Air War Campaign Clancy, Tom: Fighter Wing - A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing Clark, Wesley K.: Winning Modern Wars Creech, Bill: The Five Pillars of TQM Coram, Robert: Boyd, the Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War, Hammond, Grant T.: The Mind of War - John Boyd and American Security Crowe, William J. Jr: The Line of Fire - From Washington to the Gulf Desert Storm Books: William L. Smallwood: Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War, Sherman Baldwin: Ironclaw, Jay A. Stout: Hornets Over Kuwait Dörfer, Ingemar: Arms Deal - The Selling of the F-16 Finnish Air Force 1978 - 1998 Gandt, Robert: Bogeys and Bandits - The Making of a Fighter Pilot Giangreco, D. M.: Stealth Fighter Pilot Gillcrist, Paul T.: Feet Wet - Reflections of a Carrier Pilot Gillcrist, Paul T.: Vulture's Row - Thirty Years in Naval Aviation Glosson, Buster: War With Iraq - Critical Lessons Graham, Richard H.: SR-71 Revealed - The Inside Story Harari, Oren: The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell Johnson, Clarence L. "Kelly": More Than My Share of It All Johnson, Johnnie: Wing Leader Juutilainen, Ilmari: Double Fighter Knight Kelly, Orr: From a Dark Sky - the story of U.S. air force special operations Krames, Jeffrey A.: The Rumsfeld Way MacGregor, Knox and Williamson, Murray: The Dynamics of Military Revolution Pace, Steve: Edwards Air Force Base - Experimental Flight Test Center Powell, Colin  with Persico, Joseph L.: My American Journey Rich, Ben R.  and , Leo: Skunk Works Rodgers, Eugene: Flying High - The Story of Boeing and the Rise of the Jetliner Industry Schultz, Barbara Hunter: Pancho - The Biography of Florence Lowe Barnes Schwarzkopf, Norman H.: It Doesn't Take a Hero Shapley, Deborah: Promise and Power - The Life and Times of Robert McNamara Shaw, Robert L.: Fighter Combat - Tactics and Maneuvering Stevenson, James P.: The Pentagon Paradox - The Development of the F-18 Hornet Stimson, George W.: Introduction to Airborne Radar Taylor, Nick: John Glenn - A Memoir Warden, John A.: The Air Campaign - Planning for Combat Westrum, Ron: Sidewinder - Creative Missile Development at China Lake Wilcox, Robert K. : Scream of Eagles Wilson, George C.: Flying the Edge - The Making of Navy Test Pilots Wolfe, Tom : The Right Stuff Yager, Chuck  and Janos, Leo: Yager - a Personal Story of the Greatest Test Pilot of All Zuyev, Alexander: Fulcrum - A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire

List of Books Apali Eval Team 1998, Haavelasku. Tampere, Finland: Apali. ISBN 952-5026-11-6 Baldwin, Sherman. 1996. Ironclaw: a Navy carrier pilot's war experience. New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-688-14303-2 Braybrook, R. 1991. AIR POWER - The Coalition and Iraqi Air Forces. London, England: Osprey Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-85532-179-3 Bishop, E. 1968. Their Finest Hour - The Story ot the Battle of Britain. New York, NY: Ballantine Books Inc. Clancy, T. 1995. Fighter Wing - A Guided Tour of an Air Force Combat Wing.New York, NY: Berkley Books. ISBN 0-425-14957-9 Coyne, J. 1992. Airpower in the Gulf. Arlington, Virginia: Air Force Association. ISBN 0-9608492-1-1 Giangreco, D. 1993. Stealth Fighter Pilot. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International. ISBN 0-87938-716-5 Gillchrist, P. 1990. Feet Wet. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-73592-6 Gunston, B. 1988. Fighter Missions. Sevenoaks, Kent: Salamander Books Ltd. ISBN 0-86101-396-4 Gunston, B. 1990. Stingers - The MacDonnell Douglas F/A-18. New York, NY: Mallard Press. ISBN 0-792-45188-0 Hall, G. 1992. US Navy: West Coast Warriors. London, England: Window & Greene Ltd. ISBN 1-872004-32-6 Heuvel, C. 1986. The 25th Anniversary NATO Tiger Meet. London, England: Osprey Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-85045-703-3 Hoyt, E. 1994. Angels of Death - Goering's Luftwaffe. New York, NY: Tom Doherty Associates. ISBN 0-312-85668-7 Johnson, Clarence L. "Kelly" with Maggie Smith. 1985. KELLY - More Than My Share of It All, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 0-87474-564-0 Johnson, J. 1957. Wing Leader. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. Library of Congress Catalog Card 57-7712 Juutilainen, I. 1996. Double Fighter Knight. Tampere, Finland: Apali Oy. ISBN 952-5026-04-03 (Distributors in USA: Motorbooks International, 729 Prospect Avenue, Osceola, WI 54020 and AV USK, 602 Front Street, Usk, WA. 99180, USA) "One could go into Ilmari Juutilainen`s characteristics in greater detail and find himself describing the ideal fighter pilot. There has probably been no such person in the history of aerial combat. However, my estimate is that "Illu" Juutilainen comes as close to that perfection as anyone I have ever known or heard of." Paul T. Gillcrist, Rear Admiral, US Navy ret. Kelly, Orr.1996. From a Dark Sky - The Story of U.S. Air Force Special Operations. Novato, CA: Presidio Press. ISBN 0-89141-520-3 Macy, R. 1991. Destination Baghdad. Las Vegas, NV: M&M Graphics. Milberry, L. 1991. AIRCOM - Canada's Air Force. Toronto, Canada: CANAV Books. ISBN 0-921922-05-0 Napier, J. 1995. Air Force Officer's Guide (30th Edition). Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISSN 0739-635X Pace, S. 1994. Edwards Air Force Base Experimental Flight Test Center. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International. ISBN 0-87938-869-2 Pihl, O. 1986. Högt över Sverige - En bok om Sveriges flygvapen. Stockholm, Sweden: Atlantis. ISBN 91-7486-462-9 Reed, A. 1978. F-14 Tomcat. London, England: Ian Allan Ltd. ISBN 0-7110-0876-0 Rich, B. 1994. Skunk Works. New York, NY: Little, Brown & Company. ISBN 0-316-74330-5 Rodgers, E. 1996. Flying High - The Story of Boeing. New York, NY: The Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 0-87113-655-4 Shaw, R. 1985. Fighter Combat. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-059-9 Skinner, M. 1983. USAFE - A Primer of Modern Air combat in Europe. London, England: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-568-1 Smallwood, W. 1994. Strike Eagle - Flying the F-15E in the Gulf War. Riverside, NJ: ISBN 0-02-881058-9 Spick, M. 1983. Fighter Pilot Tactics - The Techniques of Daylight Air Combat. Cambridge, England: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 0-85059-617-3 Stevenson, J. 1993. The Pentagon Paradox - The Development of the F-18 Hornet. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-775-9 Stout, Jay. 1997. Hornets over Kuwait. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-835-6 Strong, C. 1981. Fighter Pilot. London, England: Macdonald & Co. ISBN 0-362-00578-8 Sweetman, B. 1986. Stealth Aircraft. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-906393-63-9 Taylor, J. 1969. Pictorial History of the RAF. Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allan Ltd. SBN 7110-0055-7 Ullman, H. 1991. In Harm's Way - American Seapower and the 21st Century. Silver Spring, MD: Bartley Press. ISBN 0-910155-18-6 Yager, C. 1986. Yager. London, UK: Arrow Books Ltd. ISBN 0-09-947040-3 Warden, J. 1989. The Air Campaign. Elmsford, NY: Pergamon-Brassey's. ISBN 0-08-036735-6 Wilcox, R. 1990. Scream of Eagles. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-74566-2 Wilson, G. 1992. Flying the Edge - The Making of Navy Test Pilots. Annapolis, MD. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-925-5 Wolfe, T. 1980: The Right Stuff. New York, NY: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-27556-9 Zuyev, A. 1992. Fulcrum - A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire. New York, NY: Warner Books Inc. ISBN 0-446-51648

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