ABSTRACT
This book explores many social science projects in the security scape involve some element of computational modeling and simulation. The computer models being pursued by the military were mostly based on psychological or social-psychological foundations. The exception was the team organization-modeling program that had been nurtured in my department at Office of Naval Research (ONR) in the 1990's, which had a multidisciplinary approach that included mathematical sociology and social network analysis as part of its disciplinary base. The Department of Defense is not only immense, it is always moving. The Office of the Secretary of Defense is in charge of military research funds, through The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Defense (ASD). Research funding agencies have different cultures and different perspectives on what makes for a good research project. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is particularly to be commended for its commitment to basic research in computational modeling in social science.
