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Battlefield Management
Battlefield Management
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and partially an admission of reality (modern battles are balancing acts of objectives much more complex than "surrender or die". It is an especially important topic for the United States, because the interaction of technology and national security policy has led to an exceptionally complex real-time control problem on the battlefield.
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The Gulf War air campaign was a mixture of strategic and tactical: strategic strikes on political, energy, and industrial targets, mixed with tactical attacks ~ The opinions expressed herein are solely mine and do not represent the position of The Aerospace Corporation, the United States Air Force, or other agencies of the U.S. government.
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The challenge, as we will see, is that conducting such a campaign poses complex cognitive problems to intelligence gathering and, thus, greatly complicates the engineering problem of designing intelligence systems. The reality is that strategic air campaigns are back to stay, but they now must be conducted in a carefully measured fashion to produce effects at a degree removed from their direct military effects.
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These conflicts have a low but ever-present violence level, are conducted in urban and interurban terrain, have complex rules of engagement, resemble police operations as much as military operations, and are conducted by international coalitions. The last new reality is that the United States rarely fights alone, and the mix of allies in any given conflict is unpredictable.
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Instead of the elaborate preplanning structure of the ATO, close air support operations use forward air controllers to direct weapon-carrying aircraft, which are launched into holding patterns with very wide target boxes. Reengineering the ATO process is a good example of the technological problem of systems integration.
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It is probably hopeless to strive for an optimal solution, but we should examine what heuristic and analytic guidance can be given to the designers beyond simulation and trial. The challenge of hide-and-seek warfare concerns both time lines and identification.
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:267284. ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED READINGS Air Force Science Advisory Board.
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