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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Military planning"”.
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A Military Planning Methodology for Conducting Cyber Attacks on Power Grid
Power grids are regarded as significant military targets and have been targeted with kinetic attacks in previous military operations. These attacks resulted in significant levels of physical destruction, which, in the long-term, both undermined the success of the operations and caused severe …
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War games as a decision making tool in military planning and operations
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1983.
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A Framework to Simplify the Choice of Alternative Analysis and Selection Methods
… analysis and selection methods used in military planning. The existing military methods were inconsistent, violated the decision science body of knowledge, and provided no guidance to the practitioner on matching methods to problems. These challenges made it necessary to conduct this …
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The reliability of East European military forces
For Western military analysts one of the continuing problems involved in estimating Warsaw Pact capability has been the uncertain behavior of non-Soviet forces under wartime conditions. More specifically, questions have been raised as to whether East European military establishments are of a …
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A technical demonstration of a map based logistics planning tool
… War is characterized by a wide range of possible military missions, from full scale war to peace keeping missions and by great uncertainty about when and where military response will be required. Military planning systems (for example, logistics, counter logistics, protection of infrastructure, …
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MULTI-FACTOR ANALYSIS OF HYDRO-MORPHOLOGICAL DYNAMICS IN THE PAJARO RIVER LAGOON
… These findings provide valuable information for military planning or coastal management.
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Leadership Behaviors and Employee Engagement During Complex Change Events: A Qualitative Study of U.S. Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Centers
… and a transient workforce. Second, the use of a military planning model should be employed for a successful, coherent reorganization. This study resulted in a strong list of best practices for JIOC leaders to employ for diverse member engagement, unambiguous, transparent communications in …
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Adversarial Learning through Red Teaming: From Data to Behaviour
… blue and red agents, and has been widely used in military planning to role-play the enemy; test and evaluate its course of actions or judgement; assess the vulnerabilities of the red team; and learn to understand the dynamics between the red and blue entities. However, the red teaming concept is …
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The development of British strategic area bombing 1918-1945 : a study in theory and practice
… far reaching issues beyond the normalsphere of military planning, including matters of both domestic andforeign policy. This will facilitate a clear interpretation of thefactors which necessitated a further change in the doctrine once thetheory was put into practice.In the second part of this …
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The impact of terrain on British operations and doctrine in North Africa 1940-1943.
… landscape features heavily influenced British planning and operations. These should now be considered alongside other standard military factors when studying military operations. This thesis differs from previous studies as it considers these additional factors from June 1940 until the Axis …
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War by coalition : the effects of coalition military institutionalization on coalition battlefield effectiveness
What accounts for variation in the military performance of coalitions and alliances on the battlefield? This dissertation presents and tests a realist-institutionalist theory of coalition military effectiveness, which accounts for both the process of capability aggregation within military …
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A METHODOLOGY FOR THE MODULARIZATION OF OPERATIONAL SCENARIOS FOR MODELLING AND SIMULATION
As military operating environments and potential global threats rapidly evolve, military planning processes required to maintain international security and national defense increase in complexity and involve unavoidable uncertainties. The challenges in the field are diverse, including dealing with …
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An Analysis of the Relationship between Contemporary Western Military Theory, Systems Thinking, and their Key Schools-of-Thought
… systems concepts have been used to enhance military theory. Such fusion assumes a strong relationship between systems thinking and military theory. This assumption underpins military concepts such as Effects-Based Operations, which was influential in planning the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. …
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An Analysis of the Relationship between Contemporary Western Military Theory, Systems Thinking, and their Key Schools-of-Thought
… systems concepts have been used to enhance military theory. Such fusion assumes a strong relationship between systems thinking and military theory. This assumption underpins military concepts such as Effects-Based Operations, which was influential in planning the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. …
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Modeling Autonomous Agents In Military Simulations
… In this thesis, we are focusing on scenarios of military nature, where agents can move within the environment and adversaries can eliminate each other through use of weapons. Different aspects of agent behavior like navigation to a goal or staying in group formation, are implemented by distinct …
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To what extent can knowledge management systems build and reinforce consensus around initiatives for change?: A self-reflective analysis of professional practice
… behaviour and underlying culture of a large military organisation through heuristic, self reflective enquiry - to 'find its future' - with and through its people. I use the word re-align with great care as I recognised that change would have been too ambitious and would (probably have) …