SIMULATION OF MILITARY CONFLICT

Abstract

The use of simulation in support of military decisions is discussed. War games such as STRAW, SWAP, COW, TAGS, STAGE, and TEMPER are briefly reviewed, and the hypothetico-duductive approach is considered. The four uncertainties which the military analyst faces in the evaluation of weapon systems and weapons employment, i.e. stochastic, epistemic, strategic, and axiological, are examined in detail. It is concluded that one of the greatest challenges facing the operations research community is the development of more powerful techniques for dealing with complex situations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0646345

Entities

People

  • Norman C. Dalkey

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Simulations
  • Communities
  • Computer Languages
  • Computers
  • Corporations
  • Differential Equations
  • Employment
  • Game Theory
  • High Explosives
  • Language
  • Operations Research
  • Simulation Languages
  • Simulations
  • Training
  • Uncertainty
  • War Games
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.