Course description
This course offers details of war games and combat models across a broad range of types. It covers many of the methods used in the modelling of combat and their application in support of key decisions and in the training of military and civilian personnel.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is suitable for those requiring a general knowledge of the techniques used in war gaming, combat simulations and analytic battle models. It would be highly relevant to weapon system engineers, operational and system analysts and customers of analysis reports and outputs.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
On completion you will be able to:
- Critically appraise the full range of war games and combat simulations and apply them to defence problem,
- Use the deterministic and stochastic Lanchester equations to represent combat between both homogeneous and heterogeneous forces,
- Use interactive computer based representations of military operations,
- Explain how the different methods of representing the operations of military forces are used in the training, testing and assessment of those forces and their equipment.
Training Course Content
Core content
- Introduction to the methods used in modelling combat and their application in support of defence decision making and training,
- Combat simulation,
- War gaming/interactive simulation,
- Lanchester’s equations,
- War gaming and combat modelling in practice,
- Manual war gaming,
- Judgmental and political analysis methods,
- War gaming and combat modelling example studies,
- Mathematical models of combat,
- Human factors representation in war gaming and combat modelling,
- Data acquisition,
- Verification and validation.
Course delivery details
Course structure
Hands-on practical activities and workshops to reinforce lecture presentations by allowing students to use real examples against set analysis problems guest speakers from industry and defence (MoD) who share and discuss their experiences of wargaming and combat modelling in practical applications.
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