CACDA JIFFY III War Game Volume V Programmers Manual
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Date
1980 October
Summary
The Jiffy Game is a two-sided, interactive war game that operates on the FORCE file, the product of the force structure generation process, and determines potential rates of advance, personnel casualties and weapon system losses incurred by the units of the two forces on the FORCE file as a result of the five types of combat it plays: indirect fire, minefields, armor/ anti-armor, dismounted infantry, and attack helicopter/air defense. This report is one of a set of five volumes produced to document the combat assessment methodologies and automated features of the JIFFY III War Gaming process. This report provides the detailed descriptions, flow diagrams, and the FORTRAN codes for all the computer routines of the JIFFY III war game model. The other four volumes in the set are the Executive Summary (Vol I), Methodology (Vol I), the classified data and their sources (Vol III), and the User's Manual (Vol IV). A set of four groups support the CACDA "Jiffy" war gaming process: 1. a set of four programs that generate and maintain files necessary for force structure, 2. create programs that initialize force structure generation files and history files, and 3. the Jiffy Game combat assessment program.