On Military Tactics

Ecological Constraints on Mating Tactics

Mating tactics do not exist in a vacuum. Rather, they develop within specific environmental contexts. Such contextual influences can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles around the individual, as in Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological model of behavioral development, that are hierarchically nested within each other like a set of Russian dolls. Bronfenbrenner placed behavioral deve...

Behavioral Representation of Military Tactics for Single - Vehicle Autonomous Rotorcraft via Statecharts

Over the past several years, aerospace companies have developed unmanned helicopters suitable for integration into military operations as reconnaissance platforms. These rotorcraft, however, require ground-based human controllers varying in number based on the size and complexity of the system controlled. The automation these platforms have achieved is limited to takeoffs, landings and navigati...

Metafol: Program Tactics and Logic Tactics plus Reflection Metafol: Program Tactics and Logic Tactics plus Reeection

universit a di genova facolt a di ingegneria dipartimento informatica sistemistica telematica Abstract The goal of this paper is to present a reasoning system, called METAFOL, embodying the features of a self-reeective system, i.e. a system which has a representation of its own code and is able to reason about and, possibly, extend or modify it. These features have been achieved by employing a ...

The Effects of Military Tactics, Techniques and Procedures on Peace Support Election Operations in Representative Iraqi Towns

Achieving Game Goals at All Costs? - The Effect of Reward Structures on Tactics Employed in Educational Military Wargaming

A key motive in using gaming for educational purposes is to enhance user motivation and involvement to the subject matter. Within military education, games have always been utilized as a means to think clearly about military operations. However, some research results have shown that gaming, regardless of what the game is supposed to portray, is a meaningful activity in itself, and this can dist...