WHEN U.S. President George W. Bush declared an end to Phase III (Decisive Operations) of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) on 1 May 2003, one could almost hear the global sigh of relief from a world that naively assumed the “hard work” was finished.2 But those in a position to appreciate the complex operational environment understood all too well that the hard work was far from over. Operation Iraq...

during the eight years of holy defense, the war supporting and engineering of jihad along with the iranian military forces (the army and irgc) participated in various operations and played a key role in defending the country.the review of jihad extensive activities in different operations offers a part of the untold history of the war to the researchers and interested in this area.the supply an...

Special operations are so designated for the specialized military missions they address. As a result, special operations present some unique metabolic challenges. In particular, soldiers often operate in a negative energy balance in stressful and demanding conditions with little opportunity for rest or recovery. In this framework, findings inferred from the performance literature suggest that i...

This paper discusses some of the unique military requirements and challenges in Cyber Forensics. A definition of Cyber Forensics is presented in a military context. Capabilities needed to perform cyber forensic analysis in a networked environment are discussed, along with a list of current shortcomings in providing these capabilities and a technology needs list. Finally, it is shown how these t...

Planning under uncertainty is a research subject that has attracted big attention in the past few years. A planner that operates under uncertainty must take into consideration that actions may have several different outcomes, some of which may be more desirable than others. The first developed decision support planners (DSP), use conventional Operations Research (OR) tools such as decision theo...

Our goal is to enable military planners to rapidly critique alternative battle plans by simulating multiple outcomes of adversarial plans. We describe a novel simulator, SimPath, that combines qualitative reasoning, a geographic information system (GIS), and targeted probabilistic calculations to envision how adversarial battle plans can play out. We outline the problem and describe the overall...

The organization and implementation of anti-epidemic support in the Polish Armed Forces carrying out mandatory tasks in theatres of military operations poses a difficult and imperceptible problem in the field of medical assistance of military contingents. One of the operative instruments designed for limitation of the spread of infectious diseases and its health consequences among participants ...

As is evident from current military operations that are happening around the globe (e.g., Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea), today’s military is being called on in numerous new and innovative ways (e.g., Foster & Lindsay, 2011). One of the primary forces behind this change is the pervasiveness of enhanced information systems. In fact, the concept of networked warfare is the basis of operations and doct...

Work reported in this paper was done as part of the DARPA Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) project. Its objective was to investigate the possibility of improving the stability and agility of military operations using the concepts of modern control and game theories within the framework of state-of-the-art computer science and operations research. Military operations are always define...