Visual Planning Aid for Movement of Ground Forces in Operations Other Than War.

Abstract

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the change of the political and military situation worldwide. Peace keeping missions became more likely than major regional conflicts. However, the conventional combat simulations, which were developed for the combat between heavily armored forces could not handle these new situations. In these new missions the movement of ground forces becomes a major task for any commander. This thesis develops a software architecture of loosely coupled software components. These components are combined to simulate the movement of convoys. The simulation is implemented as an event step model. For visualization of the ongoing simulation a different component displays the convoy locations on a geographical display. The combination of both modules allows, the analyst to validate a given movement plan and to identify possible weak points and threats.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA362569

Entities

People

  • Norbert Schrepf

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Simulations
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Grids
  • Mortar Ammunition
  • Nato
  • Nato Forces
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Simulations
  • Software Design
  • User Interface
  • Virtual Machines
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies