Download or read book The Theater level Campaign Model written by Richard John Hillestad and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research has been a step to ensure that the next-generation campaign models will not be mere rewrites of tools we currently use.
Download or read book Measuring Effectiveness of Theater IW C2W Campaigns written by Howard W. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This effort, which addresses measures of effectiveness for theater operations, is a continuing commentary on how the senior commander of a military operation pulls all these things together and how IW and Command and Control Warfare (C2W) supports the theater campaign. The paper first establishes some groundwork in the Background section, which presents the concepts of theaters, levels of war, levels of command, OOTW, and sources. Next, IW and C2W are discussed. The Measurement section examines the concept of measuring, looking at what, when, how to measure, and subjective versus objective measures. Examples of theater level measures of effectiveness (MOEs) are provided in the following section, Theater MOE, in which the Theater Level MOE Worksheet is introduced. Modeling is addressed in the next section, which states why models are of interest, suggests improvements, and discusses worksheet applicability. Finally, we present suggestions for improving the measurement of theater level C2W. It is our intent to provide, for policy makers as well as commanders, some techniques for them to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns and operations.
Download or read book Main Theater Warfare Modeling in the Rand Strategy Assessment System 3 0 written by Rand Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Note provides an overview of the main theater warfare model developed as part of the RAND Strategy Assessment System (RSAS, Release 3.0), in a game-structured simulation of global conflict. This model covers land and air combat in Central Europe and Korea and is part of a global combat model (CAMPAIGN) that provides a fully integrated treatment of conventional, theater-nuclear, and intercontinental-nuclear warfare worldwide. The model has been designed to answer "What if?" questions quickly, to be used either as a closed simulation or as an interactive game, and to be flexible. It permits the user to vary assumptions about a broad range of qualitative and quantitative issues such as national fighting effectiveness, maximum combat intensity, air-ground interactions, etc. The model is also unique in its treatment of maneuver because it allows the attacker and defender to have explicit concepts of maneuver at corps level and above.
Download or read book Measuring Effectiveness of Theater IW C2W Campaigns written by Howard W. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theater Campaign Planning written by Department of Defense and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook, “Theater Campaign Planning,” is intended to provide combatant command planners with a conceptual approach to developing theater campaign plans (TCPs). It is based on insights from a variety of sources over the last several years. This booklet is designed to assist planners by presenting a broad approach to TCPs and country-level planning that considers ongoing security cooperation efforts, current operations, the Phase 0 component of contingency plans, and resourcing constraints as part of the combatant commander's implementation of his strategic approach to the area of responsibility. Doing so successfully requires some modification of traditional operational planning approaches and an appreciation that every Department of Defense (DoD) action, word, and image communicates the real or perceived intent of DoD and the United States Government (USG).This handbook serves several purposes: Present a common intellectual approach to TCP and country planning, that provides CCMDs enough flexibility to meet their specific requirements; Improve the integration of posture, joint operations and steady-state security cooperation with the Phase 0 component of contingency planning—setting the theater; Explain where and how the Department's planning efforts align with the interagency, specifically but not limited to Department of State and USAID; Help CCMD planners build resource-informed TCPs that (1) identify a total resource demand signal to the Department and other government agencies, (2) link resource expenditures to CCMD objectives, and (3) explain the strategic or operational risks associated with resource shortfalls linked to theater end states. Achieving these purposes will enable the Department to take a significant stride forward in designing and executing well-integrated, resource-informed TCPs and country plans.
Download or read book The Air Campaign written by John A. Warden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1998 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Air Force staff quickly came up with an air campaign, the brainchild of Colonel John Warden, a brilliant, brash fighter pilot and a leading Air Force intellectual on the use of airpower... Warden's original plan would undergo numerous modifications…but his original concept remained the heart of the Desert Storm air war." Colin Powell Colin Powell, My American Journey Since its original publication The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat has been translated into more than a half dozen languages and is in use at military colleges throughout the world. This book would later serve as the basis for the planning of much of the Gulf War air campaign. Generals Schwarzkopf and Powell credited Col. Warden with creating the air campaign that defeated Iraq in the Gulf War. This new edition includes a new epilogue where Col. Warden has refined and extended many of the ideas presented in the original book. The most significant of these refinements is the development of the theory of the enemy as a system-which flows from the center of gravity concepts developed in the first edition.
Download or read book Perspectives on Theater Air Campaign Planning written by David E. Thaler and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1995 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document reports on independent, exploratory research on air campaign planning and execution. Its purpose is threefold: (1) to provide observations on the current processes and capabilities for planning and executing air operations in theater conflicts; (2) to identify key issues associated with those processes; and (3) to recommend analytic concentrations for future research. Our primary focus is at the broadest level of campaign planning and execution- activities flowing from the definition of campaign and operational objectives down to the allocation, apportionment, and tasking of forces. Our work involved interviews with a variety of USAF organizations. We did not explicitly interview personnel in other service or joint organizations; hence, we are plainly offering a USAF perspective on campaign planning. However, most of the USAF entities we talked with are intimately involved in joint and combined operations and planning, and Air Force doctrine and perceptions will likely play an important role in shaping future air campaigns. Therefore, we believe that this report has relevance beyond the confines of the USAF planning community. (KAR) P. 9.
Download or read book Theater Air Apportionment and Allocation written by Jeffrey P. Hamman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this thesis is to design, develop, and demonstrate a decision model to dynamically apportion and allocate air assets in a theater level combat model subject to specified air campaign plan. The methods described are combined into a stand-alone air apportionment I air allocation (AA)2 model. The model translates the objectives of an air campaign phases into sets of strength categories that are used to value enemy unit capabilities. These strength categories are assigned desired levels by a user that define when a strength has been reduced to an acceptable level. These desired levels apportion friendly air assets between different strength categories based on the objectives the campaign phases. The strength categories are also used to value each potential target. These values are used to allocate sorties to reduce the strength of the potential target to the desired level. The model uses the strength values of potential targets to determine if the objectives of a campaign phase have been satisfied and whether to activate any follow-on phases. A demonstration of the (AA)2 model is included using a two phase air campaign. (AN).
Download or read book Theater Organization A Command and Control Framework and Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Command and control (C2) is at the heart of military campaigns and major operations. To orchestrate his campaign plan, the theater-level commander must make appropriate and sound organizational decisions. Ultimately his organizational decisions can make the difference between success and failure. In the C2 process, the organization provides the conduit for a commander's information and operational decisions. In our most recent conflict, the Persian Gulf War, USCINCCENT's organizational decisions positively contributed to his ability to wage a successful military campaign. He achieved unity of effort among the US joint forces and the multinational coalition forces. The C2 framework presents practical concepts on command structures and relationships, as well as organizational considerations for operations involving combined forces. The commander has a range of options for organizing his forces and must keep several factors in mind, including the mission, force capabilities, scope and size of the military operation, and interoperability. The goals of his organizational decisions are unity of command, unity of effort, centralized planning, and decentralized execution. The C2 framework provides a template for examining and assessing USCINCCENT's theater C2 organization during the Persian Gulf War, with special emphasis on his use of a Joint Forces Air Component Commander and the organizational arrangements he made to operate with multinational forces.
Download or read book Paradigms of War written by Jonathan P. Shea and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the relatively short 32-year time-span between 1986 and 2018, the United States (US) military fundamentally changed its model for operating in a regional theater. At the start of this thesis' timeframe, the United States focused on achieving defined endstates, generally utilizing traditional warfare, and operating within the bipolar competition with the Soviet Union (USSR). Furthermore, the Weinberger-Powell Doctrine's constraining influence and post-Vietnam congressional limits underpinned early campaign planning. In contrast, the current campaign model features open-ended military campaigns conducted simultaneously around the globe with fewer constraints and unencumbered by traditional military objectives such as battlefield victories. Instead, the current campaign concept focuses on priorities intending to advance regional stability, which could lead to the US military's maintaining perpetual regional oversight through force employment. Much of the codification for this change in underlying assumptions appear in the theater-level campaign concept, now officially codified in US joint forces doctrine as the Combatant Command (CCMD) Campaign Plan (CCP). As a result of these changes to the theater-level campaign, this thesis seeks to answer the following question: Why did the CCP change from its original purpose, which entailed contingency campaign plans focused on a distinct, conventional armed conflict, to those in which military action becomes a "shaping tool," undertaken continuously and resulting in a state of never-ending quasi-warfare? The central argument of this thesis is that while the end of bipolarity in 1992 created the conditions for a paradigm shift, institutional inertia preserved the "contingency" military employment paradigm until 2008, when the cumulative effect of new leadership policies and lessened Congressional oversight pushed the "shaping" paradigm to the doctrinal and plans level. Understanding how the shift to a "shaping" military employment paradigm occurred is vital because the CCP is the understanding of how the United States wages a theater-level military campaign. Given the uncertainty introduced by the blending of war and peace, understanding how and why the change occurred is critical to the debate surrounding the Geographic Combatant Command's role in US foreign policy."--Abstract.
Download or read book Theater Organization written by Denise B. O'Hora-Webb and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theater Air Apportionment and Allocation written by Jeffrey P. Hamman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this thesis is to design, develop, and demonstrate a decision model to dynamically apportion and allocate air assets in a theater level combat model subject to specified air campaign plan. The methods described are combined into a stand-alone air apportionment I air allocation (AA)2 model. The model translates the objectives of an air campaign phases into sets of strength categories that are used to value enemy unit capabilities. These strength categories are assigned desired levels by a user that define when a strength has been reduced to an acceptable level. These desired levels apportion friendly air assets between different strength categories based on the objectives the campaign phases. The strength categories are also used to value each potential target. These values are used to allocate sorties to reduce the strength of the potential target to the desired level. The model uses the strength values of potential targets to determine if the objectives of a campaign phase have been satisfied and whether to activate any follow-on phases. A demonstration of the (AA)2 model is included using a two phase air campaign. (AN).
Download or read book Comparison and Evaluation of Four Theater Level Models CEM IV IDAGAM I LULEJIAN I VECTOR I written by Lanny K. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical description of four currently available computerized simulations of combat. The paper is intended to be useful to study agencies as an aid in their selection of a model for the study of a specific problem. It should also be useful to the reviewer of modeling efforts in that it makes explicit model assumptions, strengths and weaknesses which may not otherwise be obvious. The paper compares all aspects of 4 theater-level conventional combat simulations. (1) The Campaign Evaluation Model (CEM IV), (2) The Institute for Defense Analyses Ground Air Model (IDAGAM I), (3) the LULEJIAN I Theater Level Model (LULEJIAN I), and (4) the VECTOR Theater Battle Model (VECTOR I). These models were considered to represent the current state-of-the-art by the analytical organizations within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Army and the Air Force.
Download or read book Systems Analysis and Modeling in Defense written by R. Huber and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of an interna tional symposium devoted to Modeling and Analysis of Defense Processes in the context of land/air warfare. It was sponsored by Panel VII (on Defense Applications of Operational Research) of NATO's Defense Research Group (DRG) and took place 27-29 July 1982 at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Except perhaps for the Theater-Level Gaming and Analysis Workshop, sponsored by the Office of united 1 states Naval Research in 1977 , this symposium was the first international scientific meeting on Operations Research/Systems Analysis in the area of land/air war fare since the conference on Modeling Land Battle Systems 2 for Military Planning sponsored by NATO's Special Pro gramme Panel on Systems Science in 1974. That conference dealt primarily with modeling small unit (company, bat talion) engagements and, to a lesser extent, large unit (corps, theater) campaigns with principal emphasis on attrition processes and movement in combat. It was considered as rather successful in that it revealed the state-of-the art around 1972 and identified problem areas and promising approaches for future developments. lWith regard to foreign attendance, this wo- shop was largely limited to participants from the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany (see L.J. Low: Theater-Level Gaming and Analysis Workshop for Force Planning, Vol II-Summary, Discus sion of Issues and Requirements for Research, SRI Report, May, 1981).
Download or read book Air Campaign written by John WARDEN and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Air Campaign," Colonel John A. Warden III focuses on the use of air forces at the operational level in a theater of war. The most compelling task for the theater commander, he argues, is translating national war objectives into tactical plans at operational levels. He presents his case by drawing on fascinating historical examples, stressing that the mastery of operational-level strategy can be the key to winning future wars. Colonel Warden shows us how to use air power more effectively -- through mass, concentration, and economy of forces -- because, he warns, the United States no longer holds an edge in manpower, production capacity, and technology. Simply put, an air force inferior in numbers must fight better and smarter to win. This book offers planners greater understanding of how to use air power for future air campaigns against a wide variety of enemy capabilities in a wide variety of air operations. As the reader will see, the classic principles of war also apply to air combat. One of the author's important contributions is to demonstrate that perception to those whose grave responsibility one day may be to plan and carry through a victorious air campaign.
Download or read book Integration of Naval Forces Into the Early Entry Theater Level Model EETLM written by Michael B. Fulkerson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modeling for Campaign Analysis written by Richard John Hillestad and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors discuss some of the significant challenges and offer suggestions for working through them to achieve not only a new generation of models but a new generation of analytic capability.
