Secondary Land Theater Model

Abstract

This Note describes a new approach to combat modeling and an application of this approach to modeling selected theaters of operation in a global model--the RAND Strategy Assessment System. There are five important features of this new approach: (1) Using the model parallels the processes involved in developing a concept of operations or a game plan; (2) the model is rule based rather than algorithm based for both decision and assessment processes; (3) the model focuses on first defining a specific situation, and then selecting the most appropriate assessment process; (4) heavy emphasis is placed on the qualitative factors that determine the success or failure of operations, as well as the usual quantitative factors; and (5) the approach relies on the flexibility, clarity, structure, and speed of the RAND-ABEL programming language. Keywords: Land combat; Models; Theater level operations; Battles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA189072

Entities

People

  • Barry A. Wilson
  • Patrick D. Allen

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Amphibious Operations
  • Attrition
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Equations
  • Lanchester Equations
  • Language
  • Losses
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Programming Languages
  • Resilience
  • Security
  • Warfare

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  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Theoretical Analysis.