Information Warfare and Organizational Decision-Making -- Contents -- Introduction -- An Organization's Vulnerability to Attacks -- The Road Map of the Book -- References -- Chapter 1 Know Thy Enemy: Acquisition, Representation, and Management of Knowledge About Adversary Organizations -- Introduction to Organization Warfare -- Organizational Intelligence -- Leadership Analysis -- Social Network Modeling and Analysis -- Representative Analytic Process and Tools -- Application Considerations -- Endnotes -- Chapter 2 Learning from the Enemy: Approaches to Identifying and Modeling the Hidden Enemy Organization -- An Elusive Enemy -- Domain of Organization Identification -- Adversary Identification Research -- Identification Focus: Definition of Command and Control Organization -- From Structure to Strategy: Characterizing Behavior of a C2 Organization -- Looking Beyond the Smoke Screen: Definition of Observations -- Discovering the Dots: Finding Identities of Actors -- Connecting the Dots: Discovering Patterns of Interactions and Activities -- Behavior Learning and Simulating Enemy Activities -- The Overall Process of Identifying Enemy Command and Control -- Experimental Validation of the Organization Identification Process -- References -- Chapter 3 Who's Calling? Deriving Organization Structure from Communication Records -- The Tasks -- CCR Structures and Their Graphical Representation -- The Ali Baba Scenarios -- Social Network Analysis -- Previous Work Exploiting Time in Social Networks -- The Windowing Down the Lines (WDL): The Algorithm -- Simple Simulation Tests -- Evaluation of WDL with the Ali Baba Datasets -- The RSF Algorithm -- References -- Chapter 4 Means and Ways: Practical Approaches to Impact Adversary Decision-Making Processes -- Planning Operations for Organization Impact -- Inducing Effects for Defeat -- Targeting for Effects.

Application Considerations -- Endnotes -- Chapter 5 Breakdown of Control: Common Malfunctions of Organizational Decision-Making -- Tardy Decision -- Low and High Threshold -- Excess of Timidity or Aggressiveness -- Self-Reinforcing Error -- Overload -- Cascading Collapse -- Misallocation of Authority -- Lack of Synchronization and Coordination -- Deadlock -- Thrashing and Livelock -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 6 Propagation of Defeat: Inducing and Mitigating a Self-Reinforcing Degradation -- A Simple Model for Self-Reinforcing Decision Overload -- Propagation of Disruptions in Organizations -- Active Compensation -- Dynamic Reorganization to Mitigate Malfunctions -- Modeling Team Decision-Making: Decision Responsibility and Information Structure -- Measuring Decision-Making Performance -- Forecasting Decision Requirements -- A Simulation of the Firefighting Example -- Mitigating and Inducing Malfunctions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7 Gossip Matters: Destabilization of an Organization by Injecting Suspicion -- Is Gossip Good or Bad? -- What Is Gossip? -- Anonymous Information Exchange Networks -- Hypothetical Organization, Part I: It's All Bits -- Hypothetical Organization, Part II: Miscreant Markets -- TAG Model Overview -- The Mechanisms of Trust -- Gossip and Disruption -- Giving and Taking -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes -- Chapter 8 Crystal Ball: Quantitatively Estimating Impacts of Probes and Interventions on an Enemy Organization -- Organizational Analysis Approach -- Actionable Implications -- Main Methods -- Developing Strategies Against Enemy Organizations -- Test-Case Scenario: A Human-Guided Torpedo Attack on a U.S. Military Vessel in a Foreign Port -- Analytical and Numerical Methods Underlying VDT and Related Approaches -- Organization Modeling and Strategy Development with SimVision.

Implications for Detecting and Defeating Enemy Organizations -- References -- Chapter 9 Organizational Armor: Design of Attack-Resistant Organizations -- How Organizations Cope with Disruptions -- Attack-Resistant Design Solutions -- Organizational Design Formalism -- Precursors for Superior Organizational Performance -- A Computational Approach for Predicting Organizational Performance -- Normative Design of Robust and Adaptive Organizations -- Empirical Validation of Normative Design Methodology -- Reverse-Engineering Organizational Vulnerabilities -- Robust and Adaptive Designs of Attack-Resistant Organizations -- Illustrative Example-Redesigning an Organization to Enhance Attack Resistance -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.