A Force Structure Design Model

Abstract

This thesis describes a systematic force structure design methodology that uses force effectiveness, risk, and cost of design and compare force structures. The requirements for military force are determined by predicting the future military situation in terms of conflict probabilities. These requirements for military force are determined by predicting the future military situation in terms of conflict probabilities. These requirements for military force are used to design a balanced force structure. The balance of the force structure is measured by force effectiveness attributes. The thesis uses relaxed mixed integer programming to optimally fill the force requirements by providing a balanced force structure with currently available forces.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA245913

Entities

People

  • Charles V. Fletcher

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircrafts
  • Asia
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Integer Programming
  • Military Applications
  • Military Organizations
  • Operations Research
  • Southwest Asia
  • Special Forces
  • Terrorism
  • United States
  • War
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.