As indicated here and by other authors, complexity science is illuminating both past practices and new possible avenues of development for command and control. This will continue as the understanding of complexity science itself continues to grow and change. While contending that the human mind has developed and co-evolved to deal with the complexity of the natural and constructed worlds and associated conflict, this article argues that the seemingly rapid (perhaps geometric) rise in complexity of the environment requires the use of the insights and principles of the new science of complexity.
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