Measurement of Unit Effectiveness in Marine Corps Infantry Battalions

Abstract

The overall study is designed to produce reliable, valid measures of combat effectiveness of units with a goal of understanding why and how some units succeed and others fail. The methodology involves coding historical cases of U.S. Marine Corps infantry battalions for mission accomplishment, unit attributes, contextual variables, and mission types, then analyzing the results with regression and other appropriate statistical techniques.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 1977
Accession Number
ADA123481

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  • Richard E. Hayes

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  • Biomedical
  • C4I
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  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Classification
  • Combat Effectiveness
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  • Infantry
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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Science
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