Human Performance Issues in Urban Military Operations

Abstract

This paper outlines the key human factors issues associated with urban operations. It first describes the urban operations environment from the commanders' and soldiers' perspective. It then uses their perspectives to identify the human factors which should be considered in the development of a system for conducting urban operations. The urban environment is characterised as comprising three subsystems, physical, functional and social, and discussion of the issues that influence human performance in urban warfare is structured around well established principles of human performance in combat, but relates these to the anticipated specific nature of urban warfare.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA423641

Entities

People

  • R. S. Collyer

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Forces
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Health Services
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Lessons Learned
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Operations
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Warfare

Readers

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