Conflict analysis and resolution play an important role in business, governmental, political and lawsuit disputes, labor-management negotiations, military operations and others. Many mathematical models of conflict situations have been proposed and investigated. In this paper a novel approach to conflict analysis, based on rough set theory , is outlined. Basic concepts of this approach are defi...

This research was designed to answer three specific questions about the conflict behavior of nations: (1) What are the dinenslons of variation 1r environmental inputs to nations from the international conflict system? (2) To what degree is a nation's conflict activity a response to these conflict stimuli from the environment? (3) Which characteristics of nations explain deviations from a simple...

Since 2005, the call for the military to conduct ?softer? missions, such as humanitarian assistance and partner training, has increased. These ?medical stability operations? are in fact to be given comparable priority to combat operations. Military leadership understands their the value of Medical Stability Operations across the range of military operations from shaping through postdisaster or ...

Are the Joint Operational Planning Process (JOPP) and the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP) unable to address the growing complexities of modern, ill-structured conflict? Does the U.S. Army‟s design methodology provide the military institution a more effective structure, format, vocabulary, and process that are understandable to the force and applicable? Many military professionals charge...