STUDY FOR HYPOTHETICAL NARRATIVES FOR USE IN COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS PLANNING. VOLUME I. PROFILES OF THE FUTURE.
Abstract
This Report presents four techniques for the systematic simulation of possible future environments within which United States command and control systems may be called upon to operate. The Report contains: (1) Twenty-three Future Worlds, or total environments, designed for use as scenario contexts; (2) 40 detailed Alternate Area Projections, for the Soviet Union, Western Europe, China, Japan, South Asia, Middle East and North Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and SubSaharan Africa, designed as war-gaming constraints and usable in an extensive series of combinations; (3) the Extended AREA Projection, a systematic method for deriving the possible detailed character of future diplomatic and strategic actors, in this case the U.S.S.R. for 1965, 1970, and 1975; and (4) the Alternative National Policy Card Deck, a propaedeutic device for devising possible United States policies to interact with the environments generated by methods (1), (2), and (3) above. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0434500
Entities
People
- Andrew Caranfil
- Francis Armbruster
- Joanna Burnstine
- Nancy De Janosi
- Thomas Cattell