Assessing the Impact of Diverse Intermediate Force Capabilities and Integrating Them into Wargames for the U.S. Department of Defense and NATO

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and NATO need to be able to assess the tactical, operational, and strategic impact of intermediate force capabilities (IFCs) a suite of capabilities that cause less-than-lethal effects and whose impact can be difficult to measure. IFCs include non-lethal weapons (NLWs), electromagnetic warfare (EW), cyber defense, and information operations (IO). NLWs include a highly diverse set of systems, including acoustic hailing devices, eye-safe laser dazzlers, flash-bang grenades, rubber bullets, millimeter-wave emitters that cause a temporary heating sensation, microwave emitters that shut down electronics, and entangling devices to stop vehicles or vessels.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2022
Accession Number
AD1204633

Entities

People

  • Andrew Ziebell
  • Clay Mckinney
  • Krista R. Grocholski
  • Monika Cooper
  • Scott Savitz
  • Sydney Litterer

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Denial System
  • Aircrafts
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Dazzlers
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • National Security
  • Nonlethal Agents
  • Nonlethal Weapons
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • 5G
  • 5G - DoD 5G Program
  • 5G - Internet of Things
  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Quantum
  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems