Research Summaries

Back Quantifying the Human Domain and Operationalizing Social Network Analysis Targeting

Fiscal Year 2014
Division Research & Sponsored Programs
Department Naval Research Program
Investigator(s) Everton, Sean F.
Sponsor NPS Naval Research Program (Navy)
Summary This thesis research looks at social network analysis (SNA) and how it can be operationally deployed within the human domain. Skilled military leaders have always understood that war has both a physical and a psychological dimension, but skill in one dimension does not automatically equate to success in the other. The Department of Defense (DOD) is well versed and highly accomplished in the physical domain and though the last decade of military operations has taught DOD the importance of the human domain, there remains an inability to attain an equal level of accomplishment here as compared with their successes within the physical domain. The reason is understandable; the human domain is much harder to operate in because of its complexity and ambiguity and is most often navigated by military members in an unfamiliar culture. Over the last ten years the Unites States military has primarily conducted operations in unconventional warfare in which the adversary blends in with the population and is organized into decentralized cells or networks.
Keywords
Publications Publications, theses (not shown) and data repositories will be added to the portal record when information is available in FAIRS and brought back to the portal
Data Publications, theses (not shown) and data repositories will be added to the portal record when information is available in FAIRS and brought back to the portal