Alidade Press publishes books relevant to Information Age warfare and republishes classic monographs on military affairs that are no longer in print. The Press also issues the Information Age Warfare Quarterly, a journal of interdisciplinary essays and analytical articles on the application of complex systems research to military operations.

Jeff Cares, Distributed Networked Operations: The Foundations of Network Centric Warfare. Newport, RI: Alidade Press, 2006. This book is intended to describe with analytical rigor the concept of distributed networked operations, which is a refinement of what have popularly been called “network centric operations.” Distributed networked operations envision combat being conducted by large numbers of diverse and small units—rather than by small numbers of generally homogenous, large units. In theory and to a significant extent in practice in Afghanistan and Iraq, distributed networked operations involve a mixed bag of naval, ground and air units, none of which is individually as powerful as a fleet, air wing or armored division. Operations of this sort do have advantages that more traditional approaches lack. For example, properly executed distributed networked operations are less dependent on the survival of individual units and thus should be harder for an adversary to disrupt. Distributed Networked Operations discusses the engineering principles and operations of such systems.

U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay Brian McCue

Brian McCue, U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay. Newport, RI: Alidade Press, 2006. This republication of a 1990 classic in the field of operations research examines the cat and mouse game that was played during World War II between British anti-submarine forces and the German submarine fleet in the Bay of Biscay. As McCue points out, while no single innovation by either side had a lasting effect due to adaptation by the other side, the overall competition favored the more adaptive British. The frameworks and analyses that McCue used to compare the relative utility of various anti-submarine and shipping-protection strategies can be adapted to help today’s leaders think through operational alternatives in the global war on terror, homeland security and more traditional forms of war-fighting. In Press, Spring 2006

Operations Research for Networked Military Systems Jeff Cares

Jeff Cares, Operations Research for Networked Military Systems. Newport, RI: Alidade Press, 2006. The international defense industry is moving forward with a new generation of networked systems and concepts. The standard models with which the industry evaluates how systems and concepts work, however, are more than a century old. This book explains how these legacy models are unsuitable for networked systems and describes a new set of principles for operations research for networked military systems. The book contains a review of mathematical models relevant to networked competition and provides examples from the author’s recent analysis of network-centric military systems. In Press, Summer 2006

Capabilities Based Planning Michael I. Bell

Michael I Bell, Capabilities Based Planning. Newport, RI: Alidade Press, 2006. The Defense Department now requires that each of the services develop and acquire “capabilities” rather than platforms, weapons or systems. Behind this requirement are a set of basic, unanswered questions about the nature of capabilities, their measurement and acquisition. This book fills this conceptual void and introduces coherent, analytically sound methods for describing, measuring and assessing capabilities. The book provides analysts, action officers and decision-makers with a better understanding of the role of Capability Based Planning in defense transformation and gives them the tools to explore its relationship to network centric warfare, effects-based operations and systems integration. In Press, Summer 2006

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