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088 $aRR-382-OSD
100 1 $aConnable, Ben,$eauthor.
245 10 $aModeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq :$boperational vignettes, lessons learned, and a survey of selected efforts /$cBen Connable, Walter L. Perry, Abby Doll, Natasha Lander, Dan Madden.
264 1 $aSanta Monica, CA :$bRAND Corporation,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $axxi, 167 pages :$billustrations (some color), color maps ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $a"RR-382-OSD."--Page 4 of cover.
500 $a"National Defense Research Institute."
500 $a"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation."--Title page.
536 $a"This research was sponsored by OSD-CAPE and conducted within the International Security and Defense Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute ... under contract$bW74V8H-06-C-0002."--Title page verso.
500 $a"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."--Title page.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 137-167).
520 $aRAND 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.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
650 0 $aCounterinsurgency$zUnited States$xSimulation methods$xEvaluation.
650 0 $aIrregular warfare$zUnited States$xSimulation methods$xEvaluation.
650 0 $aSoldiers$xProtection$zUnited States$xSimulation methods$xEvaluation.
650 0 $aLogistics$xSimulation methods$xEvaluation.
650 0 $aMilitary planning$zUnited States$xSimulation methods$xEvaluation.
650 0 $aDecision making$zUnited States$xSimulation methods$xEvaluation.
650 0 $aOperations research.
650 0 $aAfghan War, 2001-$xComputer simulation.
650 0 $aIraq War, 2003-2011$xComputer simulation.
700 1 $aPerry, Walt L.,$eauthor.
700 1 $aDoll, Abby,$eauthor.
700 1 $aLander, Natasha,$eauthor.
700 1 $aMadden, Dan,$eauthor.
710 2 $aRand Corporation,$eissuing body.
710 2 $aNational Defense Research Institute (U.S.),$eissuing body.
710 2 $aInternational Security and Defense Policy Center,$eresearcher.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aConnable, Ben.$tModeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq.$dSanta Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]$z9780833084705$w(OCoLC)870308561