Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq

operational vignettes, lessons learned, and a survey of selected efforts

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Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq

operational vignettes, lessons learned, and a survey of selected efforts

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.

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RAND Corporation
Language
English
Pages
167

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

"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."--Title page.

"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-167).

"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.

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Santa Monica, CA
Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
956.7044/38
Library of Congress
U241 .C64 2014, U241.C64 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 167 pages
Number of pages
167

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30663976M
ISBN 10
0833082116
ISBN 13
9780833082114
LCCN
2012276395
OCLC/WorldCat
866996440

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