Combat Modeling Evaluation at the United States Military Academy.
Abstract
The McClintic Theater Model (MTM) is a large scale, analytic and stochastic simulation, computer assisted theater level combat model. The model has two major uses at the United States Military Academy as an educational and a research tool for cadets and faculty. In the operations research curriculum, the cadets study MTM's application of operations research techniques. These techniques are aggregated into a three day extended laboratory exercise in combat modeling. Several cadets have performed individual research projects on the structure and parametric behavior of the combat attrition subroutine in the model. Future cadet research will focus on parametric analysis of other subroutines and on applying similar methodology to the Joint Theater Level Simulation (JTLS) model. Officers of the faculty are involved in a research project to validate the structure and input values of MTM and JTLS. This research is a unique effort to validate a large scale combat model in both the analytic and the military history arenas. This paper discusses cadet and faculty research in detail to include overall scheme of research and emerging results. Additional keywords: War games. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA157322
Entities
People
- V. M. Bettencourt Jr
Organizations
- United States Military Academy