| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 167 pages) : color illustrations. |
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text file PDF rda |
| Series |
Rand Corporation research report series ; RR-382-OSD |
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Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-382-OSD.
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| Note |
"National Defense Research Institute." |
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"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-167). |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Decision issues and analysis in COIN and IW literature -- Support to force protection decisions -- Support to logistics decisions -- Support to campaign assessment decisions -- Support to force structuring -- Conclusions, findings, and recommendations. |
| Summary |
RAND conducted a lessons learned examination of operations analysis, modeling, and simulation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. This report identifies ways in which analysts have attempted to support commanders' decisions in counterinsurgency and irregular warfare, describes many of the models and tools they employed, provides insight into the challenges they faced, and suggests ways in which the application of modeling, simulation, and analysis might be improved for current and future operations. RAND identified four broad categories of decisions: force protection, logistics, campaign assessment, and force structuring. Modeling, simulation, and analysis were most effective in supporting force protection and logistics decisions, and least effective in supporting campaign assessment and force structuring. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF caption (RAND, viewed February 11, 2014). |
| Subject |
Counterinsurgency -- United States -- Simulation methods -- Evaluation.
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Irregular warfare -- United States -- Simulation methods -- Evaluation.
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Soldiers -- Protection -- United States -- Simulation methods -- Evaluation.
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Logistics -- Simulation methods -- Evaluation.
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Military planning -- United States -- Simulation methods -- Evaluation.
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Decision making -- United States -- Simulation methods -- Evaluation.
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Operations research.
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COMPUTERS -- Data Modeling & Design.
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| Added Author |
National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), issuing body.
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Rand Corporation, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Connable, Ben. Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq. Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014] 9780833082114 (OCoLC)866996440 |
| ISBN |
9780833084705 (electronic bk.) |
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0833084704 (electronic bk.) |
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