The combat simulation of desert storm with applications for contingency operations

Appleget, Jeffrey

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“…The result has been called the greatest armored engagement in history. On that day, the Germans lost 98 tanks, 1 while the Soviets lost 414 tanks. Although, in terms of casualties, Germany seemed to win the day, Hitler gave orders on 13 July to cancel Operation Citadel.…”

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Fitting Lanchester equations to the battles of Kursk and Ardennes

Lucas

Turkes²

2003

Naval Research Logistics

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Lanchester equations and their extensions are widely used to calculate attrition in models of warfare. This paper examines how Lanchester models fit detailed daily data on the battles of Kursk and Ardennes. The data on Kursk, often called the greatest tank battle in history, was only recently made available. A new approach is used to find the optimal parameter values and gain an understanding of how well various parameter combinations explain the battles. It turns out that a variety of Lanchester models fit the data about as well. This explains why previous studies on Ardennes, using different minimization techniques and data formulations, have found disparate optimal fits. We also find that none of the basic Lanchester laws (i.e., square, linear, and logarithmic) fit the data particularly well or consistently perform better than the others. This means that it does not matter which of these laws you use, for with the right coefficients you will get about the same result. Furthermore, no constant attrition coefficient Lanchester law fits very well. The failure to find a good-fitting Lanchester model suggests that it may be beneficial to look for new ways to model highly aggregated attrition.

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Section: Battle Of Kursk Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, the simulation Concepts Evaluation Model (CEM) was used to give senior Army leadership insight into potential courses of action in the planning of Desert Storm [1]. Attrition plays a pivotal role in most combat models, particularly campaign-level simulations, such as CEM.…”

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Fitting Lanchester equations to the battles of Kursk and Ardennes

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Turkes²

2003

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“…It has been extensively used by the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency (CAA) to analyze scenarios pertaining to Central Europe, Korea, Iran and Iraq theaters of operations. During operation Desert Storm it was used to analyze Allied-Iraq battles (see Applegate 1995).…”

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Simulation of Military Systems

Jaiswal¹

1997

International Series in Operations Research &Amp; Management Science

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A system is defined as an aggregation or assemblage of objects which interact to accomplish a set of goals or objectives. The smallest indivisible component of the system is called an entity. The variables associated with the entity which determine its state are called attributes. An instantaneous occurrence that changes the state of the system is called an event. For example, a frigate fitted with air defense weapons and sensors constitutes a naval air defense system; the missile fitted on the frigate is an entity; its probability of kill, range and velocity, are the attributes; detection, acquisition, firing and kill, are the events. N. K. Jaiswal, Military Operations Research : Quantitative Decision Making © Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997 the tank when fired from the direction <1>., we generate the projection of each of the J armor plates on a plane perpendicular to the line of fire. For this, we rotate the coordinate axes by an angle <1>. about Z-axis using the transformation J x = x cos . + y sin . new J J y = -x sin . + Ycos . new J J

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“…Therefore, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) often relies on simulation models in its decision making. Among other things, simulation models are used to help test war plans, decide what equipment to acquire, determine weapon mixes, and study doctrine and potential operational concepts (see, e.g., Appleget 1995;Loerch, Pudwill, and LaBarbera 1996; and the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office website: www.dmso.mil). Because there is a dearth of data with which to assess the veracity of many of these simulations, especially at the force-on-force level or when investigating future scenarios, they are often used in an expJoratory manner.…”

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The combat simulation of desert storm with applications for contingency operations

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Fitting Lanchester equations to the battles of Kursk and Ardennes

Fitting Lanchester equations to the battles of Kursk and Ardennes

Simulation of Military Systems

Efficient Nearly Orthogonal and Space-Filling Latin Hypercubes

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