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100 1  $a Connable, Ben, $e author.
245 10 $a Modeling, simulation, and operations analysis in Afghanistan and Iraq : $b operational vignettes, lessons learned, and a survey of selected efforts / $c Ben Connable, Walter L. Perry, Abby Doll, Natasha Lander, Dan Madden.
264  1 $a Santa Monica, CA : $b RAND Corporation, $c [2014].
300    $a xxi, 167 pages : $b illustrations (some color), graph, color maps ; $c 26 cm
500    $a "RAND Corporation research report series."--Web page (PDF).
500    $a "RR-382-OSD."--Page 4 of cover.
500    $a "National Defense Research Institute."
500    $a "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation."--Title page.
536    $a "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 $b W74V8H-06-C-0002."--Verso of title page.
500    $a "Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."--Title page.
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-167).
530    $a Also issued online.
520    $a 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.
505 0  $a 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.
650  0 $a Counterinsurgency $z United States $x Evaluation. $x Evaluation.
650  0 $a Irregular warfare $z United States $x Evaluation. $x Evaluation.
650  0 $a Soldiers $x Evaluation. $z United States $x Simulation methods $x Evaluation.
650  0 $a Logistics $x Evaluation. $x Evaluation.
650  0 $a Military planning $z United States $x Evaluation. $x Evaluation.
650  0 $a Decision making $z United States $x Evaluation. $x Evaluation.
650  0 $a Operations research.
710 2  $a Rand Corporation, $e publisher.
710 2  $a National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), $e issuing body.
710 2  $a International Security and Defense Policy Center, $e researcher.
830  0 $a Research report (Rand Corporation) ; $v RR-382-OSD.
856 41 $z Electronic Version: Publisher's web page for this work, including abstract, table of contents, and link to scanned depiction of full text: $u http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR382.html
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