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VICKSBURG, Miss. – The Department of Defense (DOD), with input from ERDC researchers, recently released a document of essays titled "National Security Challenges: Insights from Social, Neurobiological, and Complexity Sciences."
The document is an assessment on U.S. long-term national security challenges from a global perspective accounting for the changing political, economic, social, and psychological profiles of populations, and the rapid changes they experience in a globally-connected information environment.
The essays explore future population-centric national security challenges through the lens of the latest research from social, neurological, and complexity sciences and emphasize "enduring" long-term themes focused on interactions of populations and their environments. It addresses many key national security challenges identified by
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, in the preface.
A joint effort of ERDC and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Strategic Multilayer Assessment activity, the volume also includes authors from the U.S. European, Pacific, Special Operations, and Training and Doctrine Commands, the U.S. Air Force and academia.
Target audiences include planners, operators, and policy makers. The initial distribution included more than 1,300 DOD personnel and allied agencies. It is available at http://nsiteam.com/publications.html (SMA tab).