Strategy Templates for Effects Based Operations
Abstract
Effects-Based Operations (EBO) is an approach for military planning, execution and assessment that focuses on predicting and assessing what physical actions produce the desired behavioral effects to gain control over an adversary. The Strategy Templates project is aimed at developing tools to provide functional capabilities that will extend the efficacy of the EBO Strategy Development Tool. Generally, EBO Strategy Templates are intended to implement different command strategies using different mechanisms to achieve unique end states. The software resulting from this effort provides the ability to: a) Retrieve pre-built models representing strategic planning from a library of stored templates; b) Specialize and adapt those templates to fit a specific strategic planning problem; c) Build new templates and assess their "fit" to the current C2 activity. A software demonstration for illustrating strategy templates was developed and integrated with other EBO software. Studies were conducted to investigate opportunities for this extended tool set to facilitate applications that support the strategy planning needs of Air Force, Joint Operations, Army and Navy effects-based operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA418685
Entities
People
- Justin Donnelly
- Karen Olin