Military Lessons of the Yom Kippur War: Historical Perspectives
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Dr. Martin van Creveld’s take on the the lessons learned from the Yom Kippur War. From the book jacket:
“Surprise aside, Israel’s generals won the Six Days War by superior mobility; six years
Rigor Assessment in Engineering Analysis: Columbia
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
In the wake of the Columbia accident, this collection looks at rigor in the context of engineering at Nasa with the Final Report of the Return to Flight Task Group, Chapter 6 from the Columbia
Joint Cognitive Systems: Anomaly Response and Patterns in Work
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Two selections from the new JCS book dealing with surprise and response.
Can We Ever Escape from Data Overload?
A Cognitive Systems Diagnosis
Friday, April 7, 2006
Abstract: Data overload is a generic and tremendously difficult problem that has only grown with each new wave of technological capabilities. As a generic and persistent problem, three observations
The War of Atonement October, 1973
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Major-General Chaim Herzog’s account of the successes, omissions, and failures of the Yom Kippur War.
Fundamental Surprise
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Read Chapters 3 and 4 in Lanri’s book detailing fundamental surprise as a complex socio cognitive challenge and how the implications of surprise on the Israeli side of the Yom Kippur War (Hebrew:
Course assignments and readings for ISE 817: Information Analysis.
