Simulating the Fog of War

Abstract

This piece originally appeared in Fire & Movement, Number 58, October/November 1988. Fire & Movement is a magazine that reviews commercially published conflict simulations, and the piece refers extensively to such wargames. These games often differ substantially from the political-military games or intricate computer simulations typically undertaken in the defense- analytic community. Nonetheless, the piece presents a more generally applicable treatment of the types and importance of uncertainty in warfare. In addition, the article discusses how to modify the paradigmatic commercial wargame so as to represent more realistically the fog of war, and those modifications may also be applicable to some of the human-oriented games used in the defense-analytic community. (kr)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA228112

Entities

People

  • John K. Setear

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Reconnaissance
  • Ballistic Missile Submarines
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Battlefields
  • Battles
  • Civil War
  • Civil War (United States)
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Environment
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Second World War
  • Ships
  • Simulations
  • United States
  • War
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Game Theory.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design