Center of Gravity within the Ill-Structured Problem.

摘要

Our currently military planning processes center around Clausewitz's theory of a center of gravity. We spend countless hours debating in an attempt to find the true center of gravity toward which all our actions should be directed to achieve the stated objective. It is important to note that Clausewitz developed his center of gravity concept out of his own experiences, mostly during the Napoleonic War, a time in which traditional armies met on the battlefield pitting their forces against one another. This paper explores the center of gravity concept and whether or not it applies to today's socially complex, ill-structured problems as it did within the context of a traditional force-on-force conflict, or what would be referred to as a structured problem.