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Summary: Themes, Issues, and Applications
Linking Capabilities to Needs
Pages 361-370

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... SUMMARY Themes, Issues, and Applications
From page 363...
... Recent advances have expanded this repertoire to include larger scale more dynamic networks under conditions of uncertainty. This moves the field closer to the needs of the defense department and intelligence agencies.
From page 364...
... This will be done first by describing what the social networks area, broadly defined, has to offer particularly with respect to data collection, analysis, special training, intelligence and policy needs, and effects based operations. This is followed by a short description of what was missed.
From page 365...
... What is needed are additions tools for doing rapid assessment and for collecting vast quantities of data. In terms of rapid assessment the issue is what high level indicators can be quickly gathered that indicate the overall shape of the network and the key actors within it.
From page 366...
... In particular tools that enable the analyst to utilize the bits and pieces of disparate information in a systematic, and if possible, quantitative fashion that moves the analysis beyond informed guess work. Here, to the extent that network tools are combined 366 DYNAMIC SOCIAL NT:TWORKHODELING AND ANALYSIS
From page 367...
... . Effects based planning is, according to the Joint Forces Command GIossa~ "an operational planning process to conduct effects based operations within rapid decisive operations....
From page 368...
... Work melding social networks and knowledge networks demonstrates that the underlying culture can be changed through the flow of targeted information. The basic idea is that as individuals interact through the social network, they learn, thus changing the knowledge network, and so the overall culture.
From page 369...
... Dynamic network analysis and the associated tools and techniques will be useful in addressing both tactical and strategic issues. Further, it will be useful in looking at both short and long term issues, e.g., in how to destabilize a covert network and in how to alter the underlying culture to reduce the possibility of new recruits Outreach - Connecting the Dots As we have seen, many of the ideas, measures, and tools being developed hold promise relative to the needs of the defense and intelligence community.


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