Decision Factors for the Operational Warfighter: Explicit Insights

Abstract

The Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO) and the United States Joint Forces Command Joint Futures Laboratory sponsored the initial phase of a cooperative study addressing the decision factors relevant to decision makers at the operational level of war. The combined study team completed an initial literature review and questioned and interviewed 26 operational level commanders, planners, and analysts involved in the use of M&S in support of real world operations from El Dorado Canyon to OIF and on as small a scale as Special Forces operations in Haiti to as large a scale as a Corps assault on Baghdad. The paper reviews the insights and decision factors collected.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA464250

Entities

People

  • Frank Carr
  • Kevin L. Brandt
  • Paul Van Doren

Organizations

  • Leidos

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Space

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  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Operations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Thinking
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • War Games
  • Warfare

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  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Systems Analysis and Design