Hierarchical Interactive Theater Model

<p>Airpower's strength lies in being able to quickly strike the enemy directly where they are vulnerable while being unhampered by geography and surface forces. Airpower theory suggests the effects of these strikes propagate throughout an opponent's military system yielding catastrophic output or strategic effects. Despite this theory being a cornerstone of US Air Force doctrine current Air Force models do not seem to capture airpower's inherent strength. Since these models are used to support budgetary decision making the United States may not be funding the airpower capability it needs. This effort focuses on understanding the nature of strategic effects. This is done by looking at what strategic effects are how they can be achieved and why they are so difficult to simulate. A basis for strategic effects is established in the classical military theories of Clausewitz. Then using modern military theories of Warden and Boyd several approaches to simulating strategic effects with an emphasis on Complex Adaptive Systems techniques are investigated. Using these concepts as a foundation an exploratory simulation model called the Hierarchical Interactive Theater Model (HITM) is constructed and exercised.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>