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Questions And Conduct The Directed Literature Searches

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MILS500 W1 Library Exercise
Student# 5591844
1. Answer the following questions and conduct the directed literature searches:
a. Your Specific Research Question: Is the Marine Corps is properly trained, manned and equipped to operate, fight and win against a near peer threat in a contested future information environment?
b. Three key words (you may use short phrases as a single keyword, eg. “Cold War” or “Nuclear Proliferation”): Information Warfare, Future Information Environment and Anti-Access Area denial (A2AD).
c. Initial Boolean search strategies with Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) in capital letters (e.g. (key word1 AND key word2 AND key word3). Alter the operators but do not use new keywords others than those …show more content…

I came up with 403 results. I narrowed it down even more by using the peer reviewed option and I came up with 38 results with two source types; 34 for Scholarly Journals and 4 Trade journals. I could have also narrowed it down even more by using the follow options; publication date and title, Document type, Subject, Company/Organization, Location, Language and other document features.
B. Using the APUS Library, ProQuest Research Library to search with the following keywords and the “OR” Boolean operator. (Information Warfare) OR (Future Information Environment) OR (Anti-access area denial). I came up with 651,579 results.
C. Using the APUS Library, ProQuest Research Library to search with the following keywords and the “NOT” Boolean operator. (Information Warfare) NOT (Future Information Environment) NOT (Anti-access area denial). I came up with 96,940 results.
3) How and why did you develop the above primary and alternate search strategies as listed? I developed my alternate search strategy to narrow my search results which was based on a recommendation from the APUS library search engine.
4) Do your alternate search strategies narrow or expand the material expected to be returned in each search? My first alternate search strategy of using the “AND” Boolean operator narrowed my search material results the most. My second alternate search strategy of using the “OR” Boolean operator expanded my

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