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 wa...

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Main Author:	Connable, Ben (Author)
Corporate Author:	International Security and Defense Policy Center (Researcher)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [2014]
Subjects:	Counterinsurgency > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation. Irregular warfare > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation. Soldiers > Protection > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation. Logistics > Simulation methods > Evaluation. Military planning > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation. Decision making > United States > Simulation methods > Evaluation. Operations research. Afghan War, 2001- > Computer simulation. Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Computer simulation.
Online Access:	Electronic Version: Publisher's web page for this work, including abstract, table of contents, and link to scanned depiction of full text:

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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.
Item Description:	"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.
Physical Description:	xxi, 167 pages : illustrations (some color), graph, color maps ; 26 cm Also issued online.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-167).
ISBN:	9780833082114 (pbk.) : 0833082116 (pbk.) :