Red Teaming military intelligence - a new approach based on Neutrosophic Cognitive Mapping

Abstract

One of the key methods of ensuring effectiveness and actionability of military intelligence is "Red Teaming". Red Teaming involves questioning the conventional analyst-driven military intelligence constructs. This paper proposes a new Red teaming approach based on Neutrosophic Cognitive Mapping, that helps combine various multi-disciplinary intelligence inputs in a non-linear and complex manner. Such an approach is used to cross-verify the conventional analyst constructed causalities of military threats. The approach is demonstrated with the help of an example on the perceived existence of a common national security threat-a suspected impending terror attack. Red teaming the intelligence that warns of this threat is achieved by objectively casting the maze of causalities as suggested by five military intelligence agencies in appropriate Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps and combining them in an integrated manner.