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Unifying Strategic Military Force Design and Operational Warfighting: A Stochastic Game Approach
Unifying Strategic Military Force Design and Operational Warfighting: A Stochastic Game Approach
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105601
- ISBN
- 9798265407504
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- 000
- 서명/저자
- Unifying Strategic Military Force Design and Operational Warfighting: A Stochastic Game Approach
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 124 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Dahan, Mathieu;White, Chelsea.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Military strategic investment and operational warfighting are necessarily intertwined, yet it is quite challenging to integrate these two levels analytically. In this thesis, we provide a framework to unify these levels through stochastic games and a force design model. We start with the operational level, where we exploit the structure of military games to construct a tractable representation of the large-scale problem. Then, at the strategic level, we use this representation to evaluate strategic investment decisions.In Chapter 1, we set the stage by laying out the challenges in integrating strategic force design and operational planning. We motivate our problem by demonstrating the importance of military force design and the necessity of unifying the strategic level with the operational. We also introduce our contributions to the military decision-making domain.In Chapter 2, we consider the operational level where military leadership prepares for, and when necessary, fights armed conflicts. We develop the campaign stochastic game (CSG), a twoplayer, discounted, zero-sum stochastic game model for dynamic operational planning in military campaigns. At each stage, the players manage multiple commanders who order military actions on objectives reachable through existing supply lines. When a battle for the control of an objective occurs, its stochastic outcome depends on the actions and the enabling support provided by the control of other objectives. Each player aims to maximize the cumulative number of objectives they control, weighted by their criticality. To solve this large-scale stochastic game, we derive properties of its Markov perfect equilibria by leveraging the logistics and military operational command and control structure. We show the consequential isotonicity of the optimal value function with respect to the partially ordered state space, which in turn leads to a significant reduction of the state and action spaces. We also accelerate both Shapley's value iteration and Van der Wal's algorithm by eliminating dominated actions and investigating pure equilibria of the matrix game solved at each iteration. We demonstrate the computational value of our equilibrium results on a case study that portrays an operational-level military campaign with geopolitical implications. Our analysis reveals a complex interplay between the game's parameters and dynamics in equilibrium, resulting in new military insights for campaign analysts, operational planners, and leadership.In Chapter 3, we consider the strategic-level military force design problem, where strategic leadership must allocate military resources (assets, activities, and technologies) to man, train, and equip a future military force. We envision a future global landscape, consisting of CSGs occurring with various probabilities, that is realized after the investment is implemented. To address the challenging military force design problem, we evaluate military force designs directly in the operational context where they may be employed. To measure the effectiveness of an investment, we evaluate the force design through its CSG value. We show the isotonicity of the CSG value with respect to the partially ordered force design space, demonstrating that we only need to search the non-dominated portfolio space. We generate training data from CSGs through the accelerated Van der Wal algorithm. We then fit a regression model that yields a candidate set of military investments. To efficiently search these candidate portfolios, we introduce a screening algorithm which fixes an adversary policy and exploits the efficiency of the Markov decision process relative to the stochastic game. We develop a strategic case study that considers investing in a suite of resources with a limited budget for an uncertain global landscape. Our analysis reveals the nonlinear performance of force designs in various military campaigns, providing insights for leadership. This chapter provides a novel technique for military force designers to rapidly evaluate strategic decisions in the operational context. We conclude the thesis by summarizing our contributions and proposing avenues for future work.Together, the thesis chapters represent an original methodology to integrate military strategic and operational decision making. Strategic leadership can rely directly on the investment's warfighting effectiveness to make ideal decisions. Operational leadership can discover how their warplans are affected when new resources are introduced to their areas of responsibility. The unified framework provides the possibility for enhanced military integration between the two levels.
- 일반주제명
- Invasions
- 일반주제명
- Motivation
- 일반주제명
- Campaigns
- 일반주제명
- Geopolitics
- 일반주제명
- Cruise missiles
- 일반주제명
- Decision making
- 일반주제명
- Military engagements
- 일반주제명
- Design
- 일반주제명
- Linear programming
- 일반주제명
- Games
- 일반주제명
- Markov analysis
- 일반주제명
- Military studies
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05B.
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- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■650 4▼aInvasions
■650 4▼aMotivation
■650 4▼aCampaigns
■650 4▼aGeopolitics
■650 4▼aCruise missiles
■650 4▼aDecision making
■650 4▼aMilitary engagements
■650 4▼aDesign
■650 4▼aLinear programming
■650 4▼aGames
■650 4▼aMarkov analysis
■650 4▼aMilitary studies
■650 4▼aPolitical science
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■793 ▼aEnglish
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