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Additional authors

1. Perry, Walt L.
2. Doll, Abby
3. Lander, Natasha
4. Madden, Dan
5. Rand Corporation, issuing body.
6. National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), issuing body.
7. International Security and Defense Policy Center, researcher.

Description

1. xxi, 167 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 26 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Computer simulation
2. Soldiers > Protection > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation
3. Operations research
4. Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Computer simulation
5. Irregular warfare > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation
6. Military planning > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation
7. Counterinsurgency > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation
8. Logistics > Simulation methods > Evaluation
9. Decision making > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation

Contents

1. 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

1. JFF 17-331

Note

1. "RR-382-OSD."--Page 4 of cover.
2. "National Defense Research Institute."
3. "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation."
4. "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-167).

Funding (note)

1. "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

Author

1. Connable, Ben, author.

Title

1. 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

1. Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]

Copyright date

1. ©2014

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Funding

1. "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

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-167).

Added author

1. Perry, Walt L., author.
2. Doll, Abby, author.
3. Lander, Natasha, author.
4. Madden, Dan, author.
5. Rand Corporation, issuing body.
6. National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), issuing body.
7. International Security and Defense Policy Center, researcher.

Other form:

1. Online version: Connable, Ben. Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq. Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014] 9780833084705 (OCoLC)870308561

LCCN

1. 2012276395

ISBN

1. 9780833082114 (pbk.)
2. 0833082116 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. JFF 17-331