“Crisis mind” versus “combat mind”

This paper is about modelling information warfare and its effect on simulated command and control. In it we introduce a new perspective based on the arguable difference between decision making during a (possibly extended) crisis and that occurring during combat. Our subject is the commander´s mind set. For this purpose we distinguish what we call a crisis mindset and a combat mindset. Each is to be evaluated by the nature of the response which the commander chooses. While it is true that combat may be thought of as one long crisis, we make a distinction between a crisis situation and a combat situation. Our purpose is to better incorporate human command decision making into simulations. Only them can the effects of information warfare be reliably predicted