New Issues and Tools for Future Military Analysis: A Workshop Summary

Abstract

Events in Central/Eastern Europe in the fall of 1989 and subsequent developments there as well as in Southwest Asia have dramatically undermined the basic assumptions underlying Western military planning and raised entirely new issues and questions from those of the past 40 years. These developments confront military analysis with not only new and different issues of a significantly wider scope in many cases, but also a new style of analysis capable of addressing the high degree of variability and uncertainty inherent in the new security environment. At the same time, advances in computer technology and the development of new software and analysis tool may help to somewhat mitigate the problems the analysis community is faced with. However, opinions differ regarding the magnitude of the challenge and approaches to meet it. To discuss and debate these issues a workshop, Future Military Analysis: New Issues, New Tools, was held on 8-10 May 1991 at RAND in Santa Monica. The proceedings are summarized in this report.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA260687

Entities

People

  • Milton G. Weiner
  • Reiner Huber
  • Richard J. Hillestad

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Attrition
  • Computers
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Information Systems
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Planning
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Persian Gulf War
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Recreation
  • Treaties
  • Warfare
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union