“Activities that come under the umbrella of C4ISR are essentially efforts to use analysis of many inter acting streams of data to understand and exercise a degree of control over complex situations – which requires some comprehension of Complexity itself. In the military realm, it is becoming clear that those who understand and can exploit complexity are likely to prevail over those who can not, because they will be able to weaponise it against their adversaries and use their knowledge of it to mitigate their own vulnerabilities.”

The above is the introduction to an article by Peter Donaldson in the March 2021 issue of the Military Technology journal.

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