STROP: A STRATEGIC PLANNING MODEL

Abstract

STROP is a highly aggregated central nuclear war game, coded for a high-speed computer, which evaluates a pair of Red and Blue allocations of missiles and bombers to some combination of four target systems: missile, sites, bomber fields, bomber defenses, and value targets. The routine will evaluate one pair of Red and Blue allocations in about 1/50 of a second. The routine can be used to generate and survey a large sample of Red and Blue allocations or to evaluate specific allocations selected by the analyst. STROP is designed as one element of a family of central nuclear war models concerned with the generation of strategic war plans and the evaluation of strategic force structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0637464

Entities

People

  • Norman C. Dalkey

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Area Defense
  • Attrition
  • Casualties
  • Civil Defense
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Equations
  • Force Structure
  • Kill Probabilities
  • Retargeting
  • Targets
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • War Games

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Game Theory.
  • Missile Defense Systems.