Exhalt: An Interdiction Model for Exploring Halt Capabilities in a Large Scenario Space - Softcover

McEver, Jimmie; Davis, Paul K.; Bigelow, James H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833028294 ISBN 13: 9780833028297

Publisher: RAND, 2000

Synopsis

EXHALT is a relatively simple, uncertainty-sensitive, and optionally stochastic treatment of the halt phase of an operation in which an attacking force is advancing on an objective while its armored vehicles are being interdicted by joint air power and long-range missiles. The model is intended primarily for insight-oriented exploratory analysis, is well suited to a broad scenario space, and is best used as one tool in a family of analyses. EXHALT is easy to extend or simplify because it is modular and is programmed in a visual-modeling environment. Users who program can also change the model itself. EXHALT also includes two conceptually simple agents to represent a commander's decisionmaking process as he reacts to situational changes in the simulation. EXHALT can be used for either parametric or probabilistic exploratory analysis to assess the effects of uncertainty in theater-level analysis.

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From the Back Cover

This report documents a relatively simple personal-computer model of interdiction in "the early halt problem"-the military problem of halting an invading army quickly. The authors' emphasis is on broad-ranging exploratory analysis at the aggregate level.

Edition details

• Publisher: RAND
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0833028294
• ISBN 13: 9780833028297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80