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- Title
Network-based Metric for Measuring Combat Effectiveness.
- Authors
Youngwoo Lee; Taesik Lee
- Abstract
A conceptual definition of combat effectiveness is the overall capability of a force to produce a desired outcome from combat against an enemy force. An ability to measure combat effectiveness is critical to strategic and tactical decision making; however, it is a challenging task to develop an operational metric for combat effectiveness due to the large complexity presented by the rich context of a combat environment. The present paper contends that, under a direct fire engagement, combat effectiveness can be reasonably assessed by the prevalence of attack opportunities a given force creates in a combat environment. The paper proposes a method to quantitatively measure combat effectiveness of a military force in a direct fire engagement environment. The proposed metric is based on a meta-network representation that captures various aspects of a combat environment. Using a meta-network representation, two types of basic unit structures of attack opportunity -- isolated and networked -- are identified, which are then used as a basic element for measuring combat effectiveness. Prevalence of network motifs in a networked combat environment and availability of attack opportunities are computed as a measure of a military force's combat effectiveness.
- Subjects
NETWORK-centric operations (Military science); INFORMATION warfare; DECISION making in military science; MILITARY science; COMBAT sustainability (Military science)
- Publication
Defence Science Journal, 2014, Vol 64, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
0011-748X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14429/dsj.64.5534