THE STATE OF THE ART AND THE STATE OF THE PRACTICE Title: The Knowledge Structure of the Commander in Asymmetric Battlefield: The Six Sights and Sensemaking Process Topic: Cognitive Domain Issues, C2 Modeling and Simulation, C2 Analysis

The battlefield commander or the CEO of a company is “an intuitive statistician” and a cognitive information processor. The commander must first make sense of the complex information provided from different sources. While there are availability of information technology to help the commander in data processing and analysis, it is not surprising that in realtime operations, the commander falls back on what has been metaphorically called “six senses” (sights) while trying to make sense of a battle situation as well as making decisions to enact dynamic actions. In this paper, I present the six human sights---insight, hindsight, foresight, shortsight, and oversight, and show how each of the commander’s “sights” moderate the sensemaking process. It is surmised that these sights represent the dynamic knowledge structures of the commander while developing plans for an on-going operation. It is believed that each of the sights are evoked by intuition-a "vague feeling of knowing something without knowing exactly how or why."