Green Agent User's Guide
Abstract
This document is a primer on the use of Green Agent, the RAND strategy Assessment Center's model of nonsuperpower political-military behavior in crisis an conflict, and is one component of the RAND Strategy Assessment System. Green's structure and content derive largely from a perception-response paradigm of decisionmaking: Actors make judgments about the state of the world at a given moment and choose their courses of action accordingly. Green itself is a parametric and analytic implementation of this intellectual model and is composed of three primary rule-sets: Determine-responses. There are nine basic inputs for each country modeled in Green Agent: player-status, temperament, assertiveness, opportunism, area alliance, orientation, nuclear-capability, and borderer. Each actor in turn adopts a posture in each of seven categories: side, cooperation, home-area-involvement, other-area, other-area involvement, nuclear-alert-status, and strat-nuc-involvement. Each of these parameters and variables is described in this note. Keywords: War games, Crisis management.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA208306
Entities
People
- David A. Shiapak
Organizations
- RAND Corporation