Audit Report: Wargaming Activities in the Department of Defense
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Date
1988
1989
Summary
DoD Components develop war games to satisfy a variety of objectives. These objectives include training and educating military officers; preparing and refining war plans; evaluating new weapon systems during research and development; analyzing military strategies and war doctrine and tactics; and determining personnel and logistic requirements. Our audit addressed education and training, not the other objectives. War games use operations research techniques such as computer models. A computer model is a mathematical representation of a quantitative or qualitative state that depicts something that exists or could exist in the real world. That is, a model could be used to portray scenarios that use databases depicting United States, enemy, and friendly forces (for example, a naval battle or a single aircraft carrier). Includes memorandum on IG DoD Draft Report on Wargaming Activities in the Department of Defense (DoD).
Audit Report: Wargaming Activities in the Department of Defense, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, https://wargaming.hoover.org/view/ark:/54723/h3222rg2t