It's Not About Mousetraps - Measuring the Value of Knowledge for Operators

Abstract

Wargames help intelligence professionals gain insight into the operational art--the culminating point and rationale of all the knowledge requirements of an operator--or what might be described as the military genius to recognize strategic opportunities in the battlespace. However, according to the director of net assessment, Andrew Marshall, past information related games may have lacked the analytical rigor to dissect and measure the complex interrelationships between knowledge and war. This article will examine one attack on this problem: the Forward Focus value model and its use in measuring an operator's needs for information. Moreover, it will highlight Forward Focus II discoveries and their potential for future warfare. These findings are based on operator preferences and utility measures expressed in a wargame and captured through a multi-attribute utility analysis technique (value-focused thinking) for various operational objectives during the wargame.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA525576

Entities

People

  • Frank B. Strickland Jr.

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter WMD
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Cognition
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Information Systems
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Space Systems
  • Thinking
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.