Systems Analysis and Modeling in Defense: Development, Trends, and Issues

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Some Important Issues in Allied Command Europe to Which Analysis Could Contribute....Pages 3-9
Some Issues in Defence Systems Analysis and Modelling....Pages 11-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Findings of Workshop A....Pages 37-51
Analyse de la Dynamique d’une Confrontation Conventionnelle Est-Ouest en Relation avec La Dialectique du Desarmement....Pages 55-80
Central Region Conflicts Dynamics Model (CRCDM)....Pages 81-92
Defence Dynamics Predictions of War Outcomes and Evaluation of Force Structures....Pages 93-112
CORDEF: An Army Corps Simulation....Pages 113-122
The Land Operations Model — An Application of System Dynamics for Modelling Land Combat on the Division Level....Pages 123-138
Vector-2 Land/Air Campaign Model....Pages 139-153
Summary of a Verification Study of Vector-2 with the Arab-Israeli War....Pages 155-170
Canadian Land Wargaming....Pages 171-179
The McClintic Theater Model....Pages 181-184
Large Unit Combat Simulation Corps and Division....Pages 185-197
Structure of Command and Control (C 2 ) Analysis....Pages 201-224
The Command and Control Process as a Function of Time....Pages 225-236
Methods for Analyzing the Contributions of C 3 and C 3 CM to Military Force Capabilities....Pages 237-249
C 3 and Combat Simulation—A Survey....Pages 251-264
What Influences a Battlefield Command Decision?....Pages 265-280
Modelling of Tactical Decision Processes for Division-Level Combat Simulations....Pages 281-291
Quantitative Analysis of Intelligence/Electronic Warfare: VECTOR/IEW....Pages 293-306
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Model....Pages 307-320
Modeling C 3 — A Description of the Command, Control, Communications, Combat Effectiveness (Fource) Model....Pages 321-335
Test & Evaluation of the Technical Control and Analysis Center at Division (TCAC(D))....Pages 337-354
The IDA Tactical Warfare Model: A Theater-Level Model of Conventional, Nuclear, and Chemical Warfare....Pages 357-373
Use of War Games in Analysis of Tactical Nuclear Warfare Doctrine....Pages 375-404
Modeling Nuclear and Chemical Effects in a Division/Corps War Game....Pages 405-418
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Findings of Workshop B....Pages 421-427
Can Exercises be used in Place of Operations in Operational Research?....Pages 431-439
A Comparison of Casualty Rates Recorded in a Field Trial and those Predicted by a Computer Programme....Pages 441-445
The Place for Tactically Interactive Field Trials in Data Collection....Pages 447-477
Analysis of Opportunities to Engage....Pages 479-494
Experimental Evidence of the “Tide of Battle”....Pages 495-513
US Army Model Improvement Program (AMIP)....Pages 517-529
Hierarchical Linkup of Attrition and Ammunition Expenditures Between Models....Pages 531-545
A Self-Contained Hierarchical Simulation Construct....Pages 547-558
Aggregation Methods to Represent Small Dismounted Infantry Unit Combined Arms Battles in Division and Corps War Games....Pages 559-575
Extensions to Lanchester Theory of Combat....Pages 577-585
The use of a Special Win Factor in Army Corps Simulations as Applied to Attrition Issues....Pages 587-600
Combat Situation Assessment with Respect to Terrain and Tactics....Pages 603-614
How Non-Weapon-System Parameters Affect Combat Results....Pages 615-626
Front Matter....Pages 419-419
Structural Variance and Other Related Topics Experienced in the Shape Armour/Anti-Armour Study....Pages 627-635
STOCHADE — A Highly Aggregated and Stochastic Combat Model....Pages 637-656
Variance Reduction....Pages 657-664
Front Matter....Pages 665-665
Findings of Workshop C....Pages 667-669
Defense Long Range Acquisition Planning — Concepts and Methodology....Pages 673-695
Improving the Definition of the Army Objective Force (IDOFOR) — A Methodology Development Study —....Pages 697-705
Some Force Structuring and Design Analysis Issues....Pages 707-717
Application of a War-Game and an Analytical Decision Model to Planning of Military Structures....Pages 719-740
A Contingency Force Analysis Methodology....Pages 743-764
Evaluation de L’Interet Strategique de Zones Particulieres....Pages 765-783
The Magic (Manually Assisted Gaming of Integrated Combat) Model....Pages 785-805
Battle....Pages 807-827
Modelling the Red Force — Simulating Soviet Responses in Battle....Pages 829-843
Omnibus — A Methodology for Assessing Force Readiness and Sustainability....Pages 847-853
Combat Sustainability Analysis of Nato Center Region Tacair in Support of the U.S. Planning, Programming, Policy and Budgeting Process....Pages 855-874
TSAR and TSARINA: Simulation Models for Assessing Force Generation and Logistics Support in a Combat Environment....Pages 875-892
Loss Rates and Maintenance Requirements in Wartime....Pages 893-903
Back Matter....Pages 905-913