Download or read book Aggregation Disaggregation and the 3 1 Rule in Ground Combat written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Validity of Aggregation. In this report I illustrate some generic subtleties of aggregation and disaggregation in combat models by starting with an analytically tractable model at one level of detail and then attempting to derive an aggregate model. In particular, suppose that a Lanchester square law is valid for ground combat in each of a number of individual sectors. What equations then describe events at a higher, more aggregate, level? What factors determine whether a closed aggregate-level model exists (i.e., a reasonably accurate model dependent only on aggregate-level variables and with any coefficients being independent of time)? The answer is that what matters is "outside" the "detailed model" altogether, notably (1) higher-level strategy, (2) command and control, and (3) the relative durations of several time scales for battle and maneuver. These factors have major effects on whether a valid aggregate-level model exists and, if it does, what values its coefficients should have. The 3:1 Rule. A bonus of this analysis is a clarification of when the famous 3:1 rule applies. If it applies at the sector level, then it may or may not apply at a more aggregate level. Indeed, in a theater with multiple corps sectors (e.g., the old Central Region of Europe), the theater-level break-even ratio will typically be more like 1.5:1 than 3:1. By contrast, it is possible for the same 3:1 rule to apply at several lower levels (e.g., corps, division, brigade, and even battalion). In mobile combat in which there is no particular defense advantage, the theater-level break-even force ratio may be about 0.8 or 0.9.
Download or read book Aggregation Disaggregation and the 3 1 Rule in Ground Combat written by Paul K. Davis and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report illustrates a number of basic principles about aggregation and disaggregation in combat modeling by working through the mathematics and phenomenology of a concrete example.
Download or read book Military Necessity written by Nobuo Hayashi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to say that international humanitarian law (IHL) strikes a realistic and meaningful balance between military necessity and humanity, and that the law therefore 'accounts for' military necessity? To what consequences does the law 'accounting for' military necessity give rise? Through real-life examples and careful analysis, this book challenges received wisdom on the subject by devising a new theory that not only reaffirms Kriegsräson's fallacy but also explains why IHL has no reason to restrict or prohibit militarily unnecessary conduct on that ground alone. Additionally, the theory hypothesises greater normative significance for humanitarian and chivalrous imperatives when they conflict with IHL rules. By combining international law, jurisprudence, military history, strategic studies, and moral philosophy, this book reveals how rational fighting relates to ethical fighting, how IHL incorporates contrasting values that shape its rules, and how law and theory adapt themselves to war's evolutions.
Download or read book Distributed Interactive Simulation of Combat written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of combat modeling & simulation technologies. Discusses simulators which allow military forces to practice & train in situations which would be too costly or risky to practice with real weapons. Chapters include: preparing for the next war; recent developments; simulators; types of simulations; the evolution of distributed interactive simulation; SIMNET; fidelity, fog & friction; verification, validation, & accreditation; standards for DIS scalability & scaling; funding for DIS systems. Graphs, charts, & photos.
Download or read book Distributed Interactive Simulation of Combat written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Toolbox written by Jacob Harold and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform your corner of the world with strategies from a social change visionary In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the 21st century. In the book, you'll explore nine tools that have driven world-shaking social movements and billion-dollar businesses—tools that can work just as well for a farmers market or fire department or small business. The author describes each of the tools—including storytelling, mathematical modeling, and design thinking—in a stand-alone chapter, intertwining each with a consistent narrative and full-color visual structure. Readers will also find: A consistent focus and emphasis on the work of social good and how it can be applied in any business, government agency, or nonprofit organization Dozens of poems, photos, equations, diagrams, and stories to illustrate and enrich of the core ideas of the book. A fulsome, three-chapter introduction offering an a crash course in the basics of social impact strategy in the 21st century A comprehensive strategic playbook for contributing to the shared work of building a better world An essential blueprint for anyone interested in improving the world around them, The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact is an incisive strategic guide that will prove to be indispensable for everyone who seeks to collaboratively build something better.
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Download or read book Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains written by Andrew Clark and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Plains has been central to academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because the region’s well-documented violence was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement. However, social violence has deep roots on the Plains beyond this post-Contact perception, and these roots have not been systematically examined through archaeology before. War was part, and perhaps an important part, of the process of ethnogenesis that helped to define tribal societies in the region, and it affected many other aspects of human lives there. In Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains, anthropologists who study sites across the Plains critically examine regional themes of warfare from pre-Contact and post-Contact periods and assess how war shaped human societies of the region. Contributors to this volume offer a bird’s-eye view of warfare on the Great Plains, consider artistic evidence of the role of war in the lives of indigenous hunter-gatherers on the Plains prior to and during the period of Euroamerican expansion, provide archaeological discussions of fortification design and its implications, and offer archaeological and other information on the larger implications of war in human history. Bringing together research from across the region, this volume provides unprecedented evidence of the effects of war on tribal societies. Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains is a valuable primer for regional warfare studies and the archaeology of the Great Plains as a whole. Contributors: Peter Bleed, Richard R. Drass, David H. Dye, John Greer, Mavis Greer, Eric Hollinger, Ashley Kendell, James D. Keyser, Albert M. LeBeau III, Mark D. Mitchell, Stephen M. Perkins, Bryon Schroeder, Douglas Scott, Linea Sundstrom, Susan C. Vehik
Download or read book Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps 2000 2035 Becoming a 21st Century Force written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After v. 1, each volume's t.p. names a different panel at the beginning of its author statement.
Download or read book Complexity Challenges in Cyber Physical Systems written by Saurabh Mittal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a one-stop reference on the application of advanced modeling and simulation (M&S) in cyber physical systems (CPS) engineering This book provides the state-of-the-art in methods and technologies that aim to elaborate on the modeling and simulation support to cyber physical systems (CPS) engineering across many sectors such as healthcare, smart grid, or smart home. It presents a compilation of simulation-based methods, technologies, and approaches that encourage the reader to incorporate simulation technologies in their CPS engineering endeavors, supporting management of complexity challenges in such endeavors. Complexity Challenges in Cyber Physical Systems: Using Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to Support Intelligence, Adaptation and Autonomy is laid out in four sections. The first section provides an overview of complexities associated with the application of M&S to CPS Engineering. It discusses M&S in the context of autonomous systems involvement within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The second section provides a more detailed description of the challenges in applying modeling to the operation, risk and design of holistic CPS. The third section delves in details of simulation support to CPS engineering followed by the engineering practices to incorporate the cyber element to build resilient CPS sociotechnical systems. Finally, the fourth section presents a research agenda for handling complexity in application of M&S for CPS engineering. In addition, this text: Introduces a unifying framework for hierarchical co-simulations of cyber physical systems (CPS) Provides understanding of the cycle of macro-level behavior dynamically arising from spaciotemporal interactions between parts at the micro-level Describes a simulation platform for characterizing resilience of CPS Complexity Challenges in Cyber Physical Systems has been written for researchers, practitioners, lecturers, and graduate students in computer engineering who want to learn all about M&S support to addressing complexity in CPS and its applications in today’s and tomorrow’s world.
Download or read book Cutting Some Trees to See the Forest written by Richard John Hillestad and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most models of air and land combat use schemes of aggregation and disaggregation in representing combat systems, in spatial configuration, and in depicting the progress of a battle. For example, the use of firepower scores is an extreme case of aggregation of weapons into a single measure. Combining like systems into weapons categories-partial aggregation-is a common approach to representing a large number of aircraft or ground weapon types. This report explores different approaches to aggregation and what is known theoretically about aggregation and disaggregation in Lanchester combat models that in two dimensions are commonly called square-law models. It defines requirements for consistency between aggregate and higher-dimensioned models of this type. Some important conclusions are that aggregation should take into account the specific capabilities of the opponent (raising concern about many 'scored' approaches that attempt to evaluate force components in isolation), and that partial aggregation (grouping 'like' systems) and disaggregation of previously aggregated results can be done consistently only when certain restrictions on the relative attrition capabilities of weapon systems hold. When this is the case, specific nonarbitrary weightings can be determined for the partial aggregations.
Download or read book Future NATO Enlargement written by Mark F. Cancian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past NATO enlargement helped create a Europe whole, free, and at peace, but future enlargement, should it occur, faces a hostile and militarily revitalized Russia. This report examines the military requirements and resulting budget costs of extending NATO’s Article 5 commitment to countries such as Ukraine, Georgia, or Bosnia-Herzegovina, which are actively seeking NATO membership, and Sweden and Finland, about which there has been analysis and speculation about membership. Costs to the United States range from $11 billion per year to defend Ukraine to half a billion dollars or less to defend Sweden. The project recommends that NATO incorporate force requirements and cost considerations into its future decisionmaking.
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ground Forces for a Rapidly Employable Joint Task Force written by E. C. Gritton and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is a "think piece" about rapidly deployable future ground forces that would be used in time-urgent joint-task-force missions. The authors sketch out what is needed operationally, describe forces responsive to those needs, and discuss the feasibility of achieving such forces-first with near-term systems but new operational concepts, and then, for the longer term, by drawing upon advanced technology.
Download or read book Government Reports Announcements Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
