From the time they were first used by the United States Army during World War II, loudspeakers have proven to be an effective means for tactical psychological operations (PSYOP) teams to disseminate messages to their intended target audiences. The vehicle mounted family of loudspeakers (FOL) is the loudspeaker system currently being utilized by tactical psychological operations forces as the primary mobile means of disseminating messages or sound effects to their target audiences. In its current configuration, the vehicle mounted loudspeaker system is not meeting the needs of the tactical PSYOP teams (TPTs) conducting operations in today[alpha]s operational environment. The objective of our project is to determine why the current loudspeaker system is not meeting the requirements of the TPTs, and provide recommended changes to the current FOL system.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Hughes, Wayne P. Second Reader: Parry, Samuel H. "March 1990." Description based on signature page on August 25, 2009. DTIC Descriptor(s): Salvos, tactical analysis, warfare, quantitative analysis, models, computers, theses, naval operations, vehicles, military tactics, surface to surface missiles, naval equipment, entropy, simulation, data bases, guided missiles. Author(s) subject terms: Naval combat theory, Naval tactics, Naval combat modeling. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 1990. / Thesis Advisor(s): Read, Robert R. ; Dryer, David A. Second Reader: Johnsen, Laura D. "September 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on December 17, 2009. DTIC Descriptor(s): Ground Level, Warfare, Infantry, Attack, Shortages, Synchronization(Electronics), Arms Control, Maneuvers, Deserts, Measurement, Missions. DTIC Identifier(s): Land Warfare, Combat effectiveness, Attack, Military Tactics, Army Operations, Military Doctrine, Synchronism, Command and Control Systems, Joint Military Activities, Desert Warfare, Measures of Effectiveness, Army Training, Military Exercises, Task Forces. Author(s) subject terms: Mass, Velocity, Momentum, Mission Critical Point, Strong Point, Defensive Belt, Synchronization, Command and Control. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85). Also available in print.

Project report (M. Eng.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-109). Also available via the Internet.

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Many military Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations would benefit greatly from a fleet of disparate sensor-bearing UAVs that are tightly integrated via a communications network, work cooperatively for a common operational objective, enhance situation awareness of the areas of operation, and increase persistence of sensor dwell time on strategic targets. This would enable continuity in the entire target acquisition cycle, from detection to classification to identification and finally localization of targets, in a diverse and dynamic environment. The integration of sensors and development of tactics in a cooperative sensing environment is one of the current focuses among the military intelligence community, and hence motivates this thesis effort. By building models with an existing agent-based simulation platform and using an extremely efficient experimental design methodology, numerous factors which could potentially affect the effectiveness of a cooperative sensing network against two arrays of targets are explored. The factors considered include UAV airspeed, reliability, detection/classification coverage and probability, network latency and degradation, UAV configurations and responsiveness, as well as air space separation. The two arrays of targets are mobile armor concentrations and time critical targets / these vary in their deployment profiles, vulnerability constraints and ease of detectability. Factors characterizing these targets, such as the shoot-and-scoot behavior of time critical targets, are also investigated. The study provides operational insights pertaining to the design and effective use of cooperative sensing for ISR purposes. These include the importance of having good UAV sensor capabilities, the need for a suite of sensors to aid in locating well-camouflaged time-critical targets, and the need for "intelligent" application of UAV cooperation tactics based on the characteristics of recently-classified targets.

The complexity of Peace Support Operations (PSO) requires that a wide variety of aspects and possible effects be considered. Unlike traditional analysis of combat operations, the analysis of PSO aims at avoiding conflict situations, where losses or injuries are to be minimized for all participants involved. Election scenarios in a homogeneous (Sunni) and a heterogeneous (Sunni, Shiite/Kurd) populated representative Iraqi town are developed to evaluate and gain insights on the proposed military tactics, techniques and procedures for the PSO, which may affect the outcome of the election. An agent-based modeling platform designed specifically for PSO is used to model the evolving behavior of civilian individuals and their influences on the emerging behavior of groups. An efficient experimental design, with excellent space filling and orthogonality properties, is employed to gather data from the simulation over a broad variety of scenarios. The voter participation rates, escalation among civilians, and civilian-military interactions are the primary measures of effectiveness. The results indicate that several military measures contribute to a successful election. These include the execution of security control regions, the deployment of election booths intended to calm the crowd and encourage voter participation, and attempts to quell unrest by seeking the cooperation of civilian leaders. Factors such as soldiersâ rules of engagement, civilian fear and anger personalities and their variability also play important roles in the escalation or deescalation of civilian behavior.

As functions which further the state of a proof in automated theorem proving, tactics are an important development in automated deduction. This thesis describes a method to tackle the problem of tactic formation. Tactics must currently be developed by hand, which can be a complicated and time-consuming process. A method is presented for the automatic production of useful tactics. The method presented works on the principle that commonly occurring patterns within proof corpora may have some significance and could therefore be exploited to provide novel tactics. These tactics are discovered using a three step process. Firstly a suitable corpus is chosen and processed. One example of a suitable corpus is that of the Isabelle theorem prover. A number of possible abstractions are presented for this corpus. Secondly, machine learning techniques are used to data-mine each corpus and find sequences of commonly occurring proof steps. The specifics of a proof step are defined by the specified abstraction. The formation of these tactics is completed using evolutionary techniques to combine these patterns into compound tactics. These new tactics are applied using a naive prover as well as undergoing manual evalutation. The tactics show favourable results across a selection of tests, justifying the claim that this project provides a novel method of automatically producing tactics which are both viable and useful.

Influence behaviors have generally been affected by personality. In organizational research, Machiavellianism has commonly been defined as the need to develop and defend one¡¦s power and success. Thus, Machiavellianism more likely that personality may predict use of these influence tactics. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships of Machiavellianism and upward influence tactics, and examine the moderating effect of demographic variables. This study selected 2828 business employee to answer the questionnaire, and there are 2761 copies valid return. A factor analysis, there are five dimensions of upward influence tactics: upward device, rational persuasion, impression management, ingratiation and pressure. The result showed that (1) there are hypotheses supported for strongly positive relationship between Machiavellianism and upward influence tactics, (2) the moderating effect of demographic variables were partly supported in this study.

Thesis supervisor: Alberto Maria Segre. Includes bibliographic references (p. 145-151).