A Holistic Warfare Model: The Quantum Computation and Category Method

Hongbing ZHANG, Zengliang LIU

Journal of Systems Science and Information ›› 2025, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (3) : 485-496.

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Journal of Systems Science and Information ›› 2025, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (3) : 485-496. DOI: 10.12012/JSSI-2023-0124

A Holistic Warfare Model: The Quantum Computation and Category Method

  • Hongbing ZHANG1,2(Email), Zengliang LIU2(Email)
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Quantum computation and artificial intelligence for military applications bring new capabilities, leading toquantum warfare. In this paper, we present a Holistic Warfare Model, introduced as a high-dimensional entangled warfare category including asymmetric conflicts. Its underlying metaphysics is entangled states fusion: This is the macroscopic entanglement concept inspired by high-dimensional quantum computation with the entangled wave-functions. From this entangled view, wars and battles are seen essentially as a holistic phenomenon: The distinct operation behaviors within different battlefields tend to the worldwide war. The mathematical Holistic Warfare framework developed in this paper expresses this fundamental view of arbitrary many interaction conflicts, each of them defined by its own battle-manifold and evolution simultaneously on the planet; we call this entangled category mathcal{WAR}. At last, we introduce the research directions in terms of the future wars, such multilateral conflict, cognitive warfare, biological warfare and unmanned operation so on.

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holistic warfare model / lanchester equation / artificial intelligence / quantum computation / category theory

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Hongbing ZHANG, Zengliang LIU. A Holistic Warfare Model: The Quantum Computation and Category Method. Journal of Systems Science and Information, 2025, 13(3): 485-496 https://doi.org/10.12012/JSSI-2023-0124

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