Effects Based Operations: Applying network centric warfare in pace, crisis, and war

Introduction.-

1. Why Effects-Based Operations? Military Operations in a New Security Environment.-

2. Network-Centric Operations: The Starting Point.-

3. What are Effects-Based Operations?.-

4. Shaping Behavior: Operations in the Cognitive Domain.-

5. The Rules of the Game: Putting Effects- Based Operations into a Real-World Contex.-

6. The Challenge of Complexity.-

7. From Dealing With Complexity to Exploiting it.-

8. Dynamic Effects-Based Operations: The Challenge of Effects Assessment and Feedback.-

9. Effects Beyond Combat: Deterrence Reassurance.-

10. Putting the Pieces Together: An Operational Example.-

11. Network-Centric Contributions to Effects-Bassed Operations: Options, Agility, Coordination, and Knowledge Mobilization.-

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