An Application of the MCES (Modular Command and Control Evaluation Structure)to the Political Aspects of SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative).

Abstract

Chapter 2 provides a background on: Soviet contextual, ideological, and political differences as they apply to the Soviet view of deterrence; the Soviet concept, as opposed to the U.S. concept, of SDI: and Soviet political/technological responses to SDI. Chapter 3 presents the current evolution of the MCES methodology. In Chapter 4, the MCES methodology is applied to the political aspects of SDI, modifying the workshop results as necessary to incorporate the Soviet background information presented in Chapter 2. The outcome of this chapter is five MOPE's, along with three surrogate measures. Chapter 5 further develops three of the measures presented in Chapter 4, and presents a means of quantifying these measures. Chapter 6 contains conclusions and recommendations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA187877

Entities

People

  • Colleen Mcfadden

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Arms Control
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Civil Defense
  • Command And Control
  • Defense Systems
  • Detection
  • Military Strategy
  • Negotiations
  • Organizational Structure
  • Space Systems
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • United States
  • Ussr

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control