Ah-Ram Kang, Comparative studies of command and control structure between ROK and US field artillery organization, Master's Thesis, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, KAIST, 2015

Abstract : 

One of the main points of the Republic of Korea (ROK) military reformations is to reduce the number of personnel with the strengthened arsenal. However, the number of North Korean artillery forces far surpasses the ROK artillery forces, and the threat of mass destruction by these artillery remains in the Korean Peninsula. The aim of this study was to find the alternative field artillery operations and organization. This study presents a counter re operation multi-agent model using Large-scale Distributed Efficient Flexible (LDEF) formalism and its virtual experiments. The virtual experiments compared: 1) the damage effectiveness between battalion and battery missions; and 2) the effectiveness of command and control (C2) structures in the ROK and United States (US) artillery. To compare their structural properties, this paper applied network analysis methods to the C2 structures in the ROK and US artillery. Their results showed that splitting the units with strengthened guns and integrated C2 structure shows better performance in terms of damage effectiveness. This indicates that the ROK army needs to change and apply alternative field artillery operations to meet the current battle environment. I believe that this paper is basic research for the future ROK-US combined division, C2 network, and operations.

@masterthesis{Kang:2015,

author = {Ah-Ram Kang},

advisor ={Il-Chul Moon},

title = {Comparative studies of command and control structure between ROK and US field artillery organization},

school = {KAIST},

year = {2015}

}