Some Issues in Defence Systems Analysis and Modelling

  • Reiner K. Huber
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Abstract

When the workshop chairmen presented their findings in the final plenary session of the symposium on “Modelling and Analysis of Defence Processes”, it was quite obvious that there remained a variety of problems and issues that require continued attention and scrutiny and, in some cases, significantly more effort. Most of these issues are discussed in some detail in the opening papers to each Section of this book. However, from many discussions with authors and the workshop chairmen in the course of the editing of the proceedings it appeared that some of the issues are quite fundamental in nature, deserving some more thought and exchange. This paper presents a selection of these issues and some observations on general trends that became apparent when comparing the contributions to this symposium with those of the 1974 conference on “Modelling Land Battle Systems for Military Planning”1.

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Operational Decision Operational Concept Lower Level Model Tactical Decision Force Design 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Reiner K. Huber
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  1. 1.Institut für Angewandte Systemforschung und Operations Research Fachbereich InformatikHochschule der Bundeswehr MünchenDeutschland

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