Automated War Gaming as a Technique for Exploring Strategic Command and Control Issues.

Abstract

This document describes a preliminary concept for including strategic command and control effects within the automated war gaming of Rand's Strategy Assessment Center. The concept features: a top-down functionally oriented approach relevant to the interests of civilian and military leaders; a hierarchical and otherwise multilevel gaming structure; and heuristic rule-based models using a variety of artificial intelligence techniques. The approach will be sensitive to key features of war plans and control procedures. It will make a start on reflecting such phenomena as nonunitary decisionmaking, deception, and confusion. It will take into account some of the asymmetries distinguishing the U.S. and the Soviet approach to Command Control Communications and Intelligence. Initial versions of the implemented concept should be useful and interesting but will be relatively simple; with time, it should be possible to evolve gracefully and use some of the detailed models available on pieces of the overall C3I problems. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA137563

Entities

People

  • B. W. Bennett
  • P. J. E. Stan
  • P. K. Davis

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Attrition
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Geographic Regions
  • Military Operations
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Strategic Analysis
  • Unconventional Warfare
  • United States Strategic Command
  • War Games
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control