Military Strategy and Tactics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Opening Session

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Welcome Address

      • E. D. Bernhard

      Pages 3-4

   3. The NATO Science Programme and Aims of the Conference

      • R. K. Huber

      Pages 5-7

   4. Keynote Address

      • W. B. Payne

      Pages 9-12

3. Working Group I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Report by Chairman (Working Group I)

      • R. W. Shephard

      Pages 15-19

   3. Canadian Research War Gaming Methodology

      • W. P. Doyle

      Pages 21-36

   4. Some Aspects of War Gaming the Night Battle

      • W. P. Doyle

      Pages 37-43

   5. Movement and Intervisibility

      • H. Rehm

      Pages 45-47

   6. The AMSAA Terrain Research Program

      • W. K. Olson

      Pages 49-62

   7. Implications from Helast II for the Modeling of Land Combat Systems

      • A. J. Eckles III

      Pages 63-71

   8. Techniques for Modelling Artillery Fire Support Against Point and Area Targets

      • G. Schroeter

      Pages 73-77

4. Working Group II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Report by Chairman (Working Group II)

      • T. K. Roderburg

      Pages 81-85

   3. Arbitrage Automatiques des Jeux de Guerre

      • M. Charlier

      Pages 87-94

   4. Effectiveness Criteria for Company and Battalion Sized Units in a Division-Level War Game

      • R. Beresford

      Pages 95-98

   5. A Model to Manage Artillery Support in a Divisional Level War Game

      • D. Milburn

      Pages 99-100

   6. A Method for Computer Simulation of Helicopter’s Combat Against Ground Threats, on an Actual Terrain

      • M. Ceresne

      Pages 101-112

   7. Casualties Based on Combat Values

      • W. Nonnenmacher

      Pages 113-120

This volume brings forth a set of selected papers from the Conference on Modeling Land Sattle Systems for Military Planning. Sponsored by the Special Programme Panel on Systems Science of the NATO Science Committee, the conference took place in Ottobrunn, Germany, at the War Gaming Centre of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft. The idea to organize a conference on land battle systemmodelswas first suggested to me in 1g72 by Andreas Mortensen, then a member of the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and presently at the SHAPE Technical Centre, when we discussed the apparent inconsistencies of various evaluations of force capability within NATO. Frequently, decision­ makers are confronted by contradictory results of different studies addressing essentially the same problern leaving them with the impression that the tools of systems analysis and operations research may not be very objective guides. However, experienced systems researchers know that a detailed comparison of models, their assumptions and inputs, would generally show that results are not really contradictory. But not only seem the decision processes in large national and international organizations tobe suchthat a comparison can hardly ever be accomplished, also the docu­ mentation available is rarely sufficient to really camprehend the differences in results. For these reasons, we felt that an effort to review the state of the art of model ing in support of force capabil ity assessments was overdue.

• Germany
• assessment
• evaluation
• international organizations
• modeling
• operations research
• organization
• organizations
• planning
• research
• strategy
• value-at-risk

• Hochschule der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany

  Reiner K. Huber

• Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment, UK

  Lynn F. Jones

• Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, Norwegian

  Egil Reine

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