Working Group 12
Charter
Land and Expeditionary Warfare
(Last Updated 11 July 2002)
PURPOSE: The purpose of the Land &
Expeditionary Warfare Working Group is to review, discuss, and
assess analytic methods for improving the capabilities of US and
allied military forces for conducting ground combat campaigns.
DISCUSSION: Issues of interest include
those related to tactics and doctrine for the employment of
combined arms forces, force planning, training, and the
acquisition of new and product improved. Revolutions in
information warfare and the application of information
technologies are subjects of much discussion in the OR community
of late, and WG 12 is interested in those as well. There are
numerous areas of overlap in WG 12 subjects, including WG 2 (NBC Defence), WG 4 (Air & Missile
Defence), WG 10 (Unmanned
Systems), WG 17 (Joint Campaign Analysis), and WG 29 (Modeling,
Simulation, & Wargaming). WG 12 has a legitimate interest in
all these areas, but only solicits papers, presentations, and
discussions in these areas on topics as they pertain to land
& expeditionary warfare. Previous topics of discussion in
this WG (and it's predecessor's, the old WG 10 and AS-5) include
information operations, information warfare, analytical methods
of combat resolution in models and simulations, adverse
environments and battlefield obscuration, armor protection system
advances, terrain analysis, command and control application, the
application of weapons of mass destruction in tactical
situations, and digital battlefield control systems. This is by
no means a complete list, but it demonstrates the variety of
functional areas to the core of warfare, the land combat phase.
OTHER WORKING GROUPS: As part of
Composite Group C, WG 12 conducts joint sessions with WG 13
(Littoral Warfare), WG 14 (Power Projection), WG 15 (Air Combat),
WG 16 (Special Operations and OOTW), and WG 17 (Joint Campaign
Analysis). WG 12 is also a natural fit for joint sessions with WG
2 (NBC Defence) and WG 29 (Modeling, Simulation, and Wargaming).
