Risk Assessment of Capability Requirements Using WISDOM–II

The analysis of capability requirements plays a very important role in military operations. It assists analysts to make decisions at strategic, operational and tactical levels. The analysis of capability requirements tends to be extremely expensive and time-consuming. Cutting-edge information technologies, such as red teaming, complex adaptive systems and agent based systems, can facilitate such analysis through computer simulations. Based on these technologies, a promising agent-based combat simulation system – WISDOM–II is built. In this paper, we conduct a series of analysis to evaluate the effect of different capability configurations on the performance of different force compositions.