STUDY FOR HYPOTHETICAL NARRATIVES FOR USE IN COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS PLANNING. VOLUME 2. THE ALTERNATIVE NATIONAL POLICY CARD DECK

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 Sub-Saharan 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.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Sep 01, 1963
• Accession Number: AD0434798

Entities

People

• Herman Kahn
• Max Singer
• Sara Dustin
• William Pfaff

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Counter WMD
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Civil Defense
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Communist Countries
• Control Systems
• Governments
• International Law
• International Organizations
• International Relations
• National Security
• Political Systems
• Recreation
• Space Systems
• Treaties
• United States
• Warfare

Readers

• Computer Science.
• International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.
• Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control