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| Methods for Conducting Military Operational Analysis
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Forward – David S. C. Chu (Under Secretary of Defense)
Chapter
1
- Introduction to Operational Analysis
Andrew G. Loerch and Larry B. Rainey
Chapter
2
- Theater Campaign Analysis
Wm. Forrest Crain
Chapter
3
- Combat Operations Analysis
Ronald L. Bertha and Richard L. Shelton
Chapter
4
- Analysis of Smaller Scale Contingencies
Herman J. “Touggy” Orgeron
Chapter
5
- Analytic Support to the Joint Combatant Commander
Ronald L. Bertha, Michael V. Pannell, Jerry Diaz, Joseph Morgan, Clinton
Clark, Steven Cox, Kirsten Messer, Timothy Cook and Stephen Murray
Chapter
6
- Analysis Support for Acquisition:
Part I: Analysis for Alternatives
Theodore P. Lewis, David A. Fulk and Gloria Castro
Chapter
7
- Analysis Support for Acquisition:
Part II: Optimizing Capital Planning
Gerald G. Brown, Robert F. Dell, Andrew G. Loerch
and Alexandra M. Newman
Chapter
8
- Analysis Support for Force Structure Decisions
Andrew G. Loerch
Chapter
9
- Strategic Mobility and Deployment
Alan W. Johnson, Robert Brigantic and Jean M. Mahan
Chapter
10
- Policy Analysis
Willie J. McFadden and Daniel J. McCarthy
Chapter
11
- Logistics
Bradley E. Anderson, Marvin A. Arostegui and David
L. Lyle
Chapter
12
- Requirements
Kirk A. Yost
Chapter
13
- Manpower and Personnel
David M. Cashbaugh, Andrew O. Hall, Michael J.
Kwinn, Jr., Todd A. Sriver and N. Keith Womer
Chapter
14
- Analyzing Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
Kirk A. Michealson, Kemp L. Littlefield and Paul J.
Bross
Chapter
15
- Analyzing Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance
Robert H. Weber
Chapter
16
- Test and Evaluation
Frank B. Gray and Greg T. Hutto
Chapter
17
- Joint Training
Fred E. Hartman
Chapter
18
- Critical Thinking
Larry B. Rainey, Kevin B. Kreitman, Bradley A.
Warner and Stephen B. Johnson
Chapter
19
- Value-focused Thinking
Gregory S. Parnell
Chapter
20
- Linking Systems Performance and Operational Effectiveness
Walter L. Perry
Chapter
21
- Effects-based Analysis
Clayton P. Bowen
Chapter
22
- Information Operations and Information Warfare
Patrick D. Allen
Chapter
23
- Using Architectures for Analysis
Andrew W. Zinn
Chapter
24
- The Future of Military Operational Analysis: A Return to Our Roots
Patrick D. Allen, Andrew G. Loerch and Larry B.
Rainey
Index
As a
decision maker in the challenging international security environment swirling
all around us I am, by inclination, experience, and position, more and more
reliant upon the application of the science and art of military operations
research.
This
work is an excellent reference filled with examples of the best developmental
approaches and current state of the art techniques. In fact, during my read I
was reminded of British physicist Sir William Bragg’s comment that “The
important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new
ways to think about them.”
I
commend the Military Operations Research Society for accepting and acting upon
my earlier challenge to evolve the state of our analytical capabilities and to
engage in the process of conducting assessments and developing recommendations
through scientific and technical innovations. This handbook does exactly that
while providing examples of new analytical methods and measures.
To the many contributions, I offer you my thanks for this valuable contribution – to those who practices and apply the art and science of military operations research and to those who benefit as a direct result – the men and women who go in harm’s way on behalf of the United States of America.
Well done!
David S.
C. Chu
Under Secretary of Defense
April 24, 2007
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