A Heterogeneous Time-Step Attrition Alternative for the MOSCOW Low Resolution Combat Model

Abstract

The Method of Screening Operational Concepts of Warfare Model (MOSCOW) is a low resolution analytic tool designed by the RAND Corporation to assist decisionmakers in comparing the performance of alternative warfighting doctrines. Recent analysis of this model suggest its current battle attrition mechanism places unreasonable conceptual limits on the model's usefulness. This thesis considers an alternative way to compute battle attrition which does not suffer from these difficulties.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA219813

Entities

People

  • John C. Stratis

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artillery
  • Attrition
  • Availability
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Corporations
  • Degradation
  • Doctrine
  • Firing Rate
  • Indirect Fire
  • Low Resolution
  • Operations Research
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Time Intervals
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies