Exploratory Study of the Army-as-a-System Core Skills: Comparing the Effectiveness of Warfighting Tactics Using MANA

摘要

The agent based distillation MANA was used for a parametric study of the seven core skills of the Army-as-a-system model, using a bottom-up approach. Simple tactics were developed, then combined, so more complex behaviour emerged. Scenarios in which base and combined tactics were played against each were used to measure the effectiveness of various combinations of core skills. Preliminary results indicate that the behaviour displayed by the simulation entities led to multiple distinct end-states. In addition, a 'rock- scissors-paper' paradigm emerged between combinations of tactics, where a cyclic, rather than linear, relationship was observed for the capacity of pairs of tactics to perform well against one another.