Woo-Seop Yun, Sung-Gil Ko, Il-Chul Moon, and Tae-Eog Lee, Effectiveness of Command and Control Time in Combat Outcome, Asia Simulation Conference (AsiaSim 2015), Jeju Island, Korea, Nov 4-7, 2015

Abstract

An existing notion on command and control (C2) in military operations asserts that less command times guarantee operational successes in combats. The logic behind this claim is ensuring the enough preparation time for sub-ordinate units through the commander’s fast decision-making. This study questions this claim on the importance of the command times: what-if there are differences in the importance by the types of commands? To analyse the combat effectiveness of various command times, we developed a constructive simulation model that depicts an offensive operation of an army mechanized infantry brigade. We used the agent-based modeling approach to build the model since the C2 is a decision-making process of human commanders who are inherently bounded rational agents. Our simulation results shows that there are particularly effective quick C2 decision-making items compared to items that does not make signficant differences in the combat results. 

@inproceedings{Yun2015,
address = {Jeju Island, Korea},
author = {Woo-Seop Yun, Sung-Gil Ko, Il-Chul Moon, and Tae-Eog Lee},
booktitle = {Asia Simulation Conference},
title = {{Effectiveness of Command and Control Time in Combat Outcome}},
year = {2015}
}