Measuring Effectiveness of Theater IW/C2W Campaigns

Abstract

This effort, which addresses measures of effectiveness for theater operations, is a continuing commentary on how the senior commander of a military operation pulls all these things together and how IW and Command and Control Warfare (C2W) supports the theater campaign. The paper first establishes some groundwork in the Background section, which presents the concepts of theaters, levels of war, levels of command, OOTW, and sources. Next, IW and C2W are discussed. The Measurement section examines the concept of measuring, looking at what, when, how to measure, and subjective versus objective measures. Examples of theater level measures of effectiveness (MOEs) are provided in the following section, Theater MOE, in which the Theater Level MOE Worksheet is introduced. Modeling is addressed in the next section, which states why models are of interest, suggests improvements, and discusses worksheet applicability. Finally, we present suggestions for improving the measurement of theater level C2W. It is our intent to provide, for policy makers as well as commanders, some techniques for them to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns and operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 26, 1995
Accession Number
ADA330423

Entities

People

  • Howard W. Clark
  • Saundra K. Wallfesh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Combat Forces
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Doctrine
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Information Operations
  • Information Warfare
  • Measures Of Effectiveness
  • Military Applications
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Psychological Operations
  • Simulations
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control