This report records work carried out on a theater-level simulation modeling effort entitled J-STOCHWARS (JS). It is a connected set of working papers: minimal attempt has been made to polish the prose, and redundancies occur. There remain needed additions and modifications. These will be made as the authors adapt the ideas for use in planning models that are under current, and future military development. Work ...
Title XXIX of United States Public Law 101-510, the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, provides procedures for closure or realignment of major department of Defense installations. This law and subsequent legislative amendments require installations slated for closure to have been impartially evaluated primarily with regard to military value and cost. This paper presents an elastic bi-criterion mixed integer programming model with military value and cost objectives developed ...
This report asserts that a fundamental flaw exist in current systematic combat model--the use of the so-called present-state decisionmaking paradigm. This paradigm is shown not only to be unrealistic but also to rely on hidden models. The report also presents and examines a proposed alternative--the future-state decisionmaking architecture of the Generalized Value System GVS. This architecture is shown to be more realistic than present-state decisionmaking, yet practical to implement. The ...
The Airland Battle is an emerging doctrine of the US Army. This doctrine envisions an extended battlefield, not confined to a narrow belt around the forward edge of the (main) battle area (FEBA). Inherent in this doctrine is a concept of target value analysis which attempts to identify targets on the extended battlefield in terms of their values, which may be situationally dependent. Such analysis is crucial to the successful ...
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