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Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq : operational vignettes, lessons learned, and a survey of selected efforts

Title
Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq : operational vignettes, lessons learned, and a survey of selected efforts / Ben Connable, Walter L. Perry, Abby Doll, Natasha Lander, Dan Madden.
Author
Connable, Ben
Publication
  • Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Perry, Walt L.
  • Doll, Abby
  • Lander, Natasha
  • Madden, Dan
  • Rand Corporation, issuing body.
  • National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), issuing body.
  • International Security and Defense Policy Center, researcher.
Description
xxi, 167 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 26 cm
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.
Subjects
Note
  • "RR-382-OSD."--Page 4 of cover.
  • "National Defense Research Institute."
  • "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation."
  • "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-167).
Funding (note)
  • "This research was sponsored by OSD-CAPE and conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute ... under contract
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 -- Appendix. Review of selected models and simulations.
Call Number
JFF 17-331
ISBN
  • 9780833082114
  • 0833082116
LCCN
2012276395
OCLC
866996440
Author
Connable, Ben, author.
Title
Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq : operational vignettes, lessons learned, and a survey of selected efforts / Ben Connable, Walter L. Perry, Abby Doll, Natasha Lander, Dan Madden.
Publisher
Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Funding
"This research was sponsored by OSD-CAPE and conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute ... under contract W74V8H-06-C-0002"--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-167).
Added Author
Perry, Walt L., author.
Doll, Abby, author.
Lander, Natasha, author.
Madden, Dan, author.
Rand Corporation, issuing body.
National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), issuing body.
International Security and Defense Policy Center, researcher.
Other Form:
Online version: Connable, Ben. Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq. Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014] 9780833084705 (OCoLC)870308561
Research Call Number
JFF 17-331
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