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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Combat effectiveness"”.
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Correlation of fighter aircraft performance with combat effectiveness in a tactically significant environment
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1991.
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Psychological, social and attitudinal variables associated with infantry combat effectiveness and their relation to women.
… consideration is being given to opening up combat occupations to women. This thesis reviewed relevant literature in the fields of psychology and sociology, and found that several individual and group variables (body dimensions, personality, activity level, and social cohesion) were related …
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Examining Combat Effectiveness in Asymmetric Engagements with Balanced Forces Using the Information Age Combat Model
… identified in the investigation of networked combat force configurations in the realm of asymmetric engagements. Specifically, the research question is, how should an information age combat force be networked in order to increase its combat effectiveness in asymmetric engagements with balanced …
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A Discrete Event Simulation of Network Centric Operations: Modeling Unbalanced Combat Configurations in Symmetric Engagements
… sharing and connectivity is fundamental to the effectiveness of a combat force. This due to the ability of a properly networked force to self-synchronize itself as it engages enemy forces. The purposeful arrangement of assets in a combat force is what makes it 'properly networked'. What is a …
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Operational energy/operational effectiveness investigation for scalable Marine expeditionary brigade forces in contingency response scenarios
… Corps (USMC) seeks to increase overall mission effectiveness, while maintaining or improving combat effectiveness, through efficient energy use in the battle space. This capstone project examined operational energy efficiencies through the specification, modeling, and data analysis associated …
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E-AI an emotion architecture for agents in games & virtual worlds
… The first was applying the architecture to combat bots in Quake 3, the second to a chat bot in the virtual world Second Life, and the third was to a web chat bot used for e-commerce, specifically dealing with question and answers about the companies services. The three case studies were …
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A system dynamics approach to aircraft survivability-attrition analysis
… equations, functions of the size and combat effectiveness of each side. Lanchester's model was an intellectual breakthrough in the analysis of warfare insofar as it provided a deep insight into the possibilities inherent in simple models of combat. Interestingly enough, Lanchester's …
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Towards the Quantitative Analysis of the Connectivity Value of Networked Operations
… is the arrangement of the assets within a combat force. Certainly, the many different ways to arrange a given set of assets will have different impacts on the combat effectiveness of the force. Some arrangements will enable self-synchronization, while other arrangements will impede it. How …
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Command Climate and Ethical Behavior: Perspectives from the Commandant's of the Marine Corps
… focused on ethics may negatively affect combat readiness and warfighting effectiveness. To date, however, little scholarly work, if any, has been done that examines the role that command climate plays in influencing the ethical behavior of Marines.</p> <p>To begin to fill this void in the …
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The contact hypothesis and racial diversity in the United States Military
… has rules, guidelines, and policies that favor combat effectiveness and not a particular individual or group, and 3.) Powerful sanctions are implemented by military leaders to ensure both of the above objectives. Implications of the findings can be discussed. These conditions also illustrate the …
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The Forgotten Boys of the Ninth Corps: Reappraising the Combat Performance of the 31st Maine and 17th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiments
This dissertation explores the combat performance of the Union soldiers who filled newly-raised regiments that fought through the Civil War’s final year. Period observers and historians have typically regarded such later arrivals as substandard to the “Boys of ‘61” who enlisted at the war’s start. …