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The Grey Zone™

The Quantum Framework™

Multidimensional crisis assessment for complexity

Strategic analysis is broken.

Most frameworks analyze events through a single dimension: military (kinetic), economic, or narrative. They assume linearity. They search for single causes. They expect clear attribution.

They fail in complexity.

Events don't happen in one dimension and then create "effects" in others. They happen simultaneously across all dimensions, entangled.

The Quantum Framework™ is a tool for multidimensional assessment that operates on principles borrowed from quantum physics: entanglement, superposition, non-linearity of time and observer effect.

It reveals what conventional single-dimension analysis cannot see: how events across multiple domains affect each other instantaneously, how contradictory realities can coexist, and how observation itself transforms what's being observed.

This page is your starting point to explore and navigate these ideas deeply and clearly.

Introduction to Complexity

  1. Complex Adaptive Systems
  2. Network theory
  3. Self organization
  4. Chaos theory
  5. How they all connect?

The Quantum Framework™

  1. Introduction
  2. Why "Quantum"? 4 fundamental principles applied to IR
  3. The 7 Dimensions
  4. How the 7 dimensions interact
  5. Who can use it? Why? How?

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