Naval Ship Utility: The Soviet Perspective

Abstract

This thesis critically reviews twenty-two articles from the Soviet Naval Digest, Morskoy Sbornik, dealing with a wide spectrum of measures of effectiveness such as individual time efficiency, ASW search effectiveness, command decision efficiency, effectiveness of ASW training, measures of force control, and others. These Soviet measures of effectiveness are categorized by level of combat action. Although there is some question about the specific Soviet meaning of the translations, this thesis uses the translator's rendering of the basic units of Soviet Naval organization; individual, subunit (podrazdeleniye), unit (chast'), and force (soyedineniye). The levels of combat action above force (generally agreed to be named front (front), and TVD (Teatr Voyennykh Deystviy), are not included in this study. The articles illustrate the Soviet tendency to organize their operations research along the same lines as the units of naval organization and indicate that the most basic measure of naval ship utility is combat effectiveness.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA177464

Entities

People

  • Dale M. Dassler Jr.

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Employment
  • Game Theory
  • Mathematical Models
  • Military History
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • Sonar
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Control

Readers

  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Political Science/ International Relations/ European Studies