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Urban operationsRice, Ian C. 06 1900 (has links)
This thesis examines military performance in both urban and traditional non-urban environments. Cases used in this study are German operations on the Russian front, Israeli operations during the Yom Kippur War, and U.S. Marine operations in South Vietnam. This thesis establishes a framework for analysis consisting of six factors. These include environment, time, informational aspects of military operations, application of existing technology, intangible human factors, and the decisionmaking of both political and military leaders. Analysis of the three cases points to a number of common trends including, shortcomings when units enter in the urban environment. We note a lack of urban operations training, an increase in time to accomplish tasks, a resistance to operate at night, difficulty processing and communicating information, and micromanagement of city fighting by political and military leaders who typically refrain from such management during non-urban combat. Results of this study suggest a need to incorporate consideration of our six factors into current doctrine. / US Army (USA) author.
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Urban operations : theory and cases /Anderson, Gregory K. Rice, Ian C. January 2003 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): John Arquilla, Anna Simons. Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-188). Also available online.
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Analysis of the Vertical Takeoff and landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) in small unti urban operationsCason, Roman K. 09 1900 (has links)
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. / The Marine Corps has recently embarked on the development of a Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) to replace the aging Pioneer system. This thesis examines the critical elements this platform must possess in order to effectively support small units operating in urban environments. We address this issue by creating and exploring an agentbased simulation of a platoon conducting an urban patrol in a setting similar to those currently being encountered in Iraq. The platoon utilizes the VTUAV as an intelligence-gathering asset. We use an efficient designed experiment to generate data from the simulation scenario, and then use multiple regression and regression trees to relate the UAV capabilities to the patrol's operational effectiveness. Our results suggest that the effectiveness of a VTUAV is greatly influenced by noise in the urban warfare environment. We use a loss function, along with the regression models, to identify UAV configurations that improve operational effectiveness yet are robust to uncertainties about civilian and insurgent behavior. The VTUAV must have high communication capability, as well as accurate sensing, in order to perform well across a range of environmental conditions. / Captain, United States Marine Corps
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Comparison of a Distributed Operations force to a traditional force in urban combatBabilot, Michael J. 09 1900 (has links)
uction efforts. This thesis explores whether a DO is suitable for urban combat operations by analyzing the results of simulations created in Map Aware Non-uniform Automata (MANA). The employment of a DO is compared to employment of a traditional Marine infantry platoon in an urban combat scenario based upon data obtained from Operation al-Fajr, conducted in Fallujah, Iraq, in November 2004. The study also examines the effects caused by varying the terrain to that of Range 200, constructed at the Marine Air Ground Training Command, Twentynine Palms, California. Modeling insights, obtained by surveying Marines with urban combat experience in Iraq, tie into the research effort. This research indicates that the DO is marginally more effective than a Traditional Platoon in urban combat. DO also shows a greater sensitivity to combat outcomes due to urban density, and produced significantly better results in terrain with a lesser density of urban structures.
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Frequency and polarization diversity jamming of communications in urban environmentsUlama, Tuncay 09 1900 (has links)
The purpose of this research is to investigate how to exploit frequency and polarization techniques in reducing the effects of jamming against UAV relay communication links in an urban warfare environment. There have been early studies investigating the diversity techniques against multipath and fading problems in urban environments. A medium without any jamming issues seems almost impossible to exist in today's warfare. Basically, noise jamming issues were taken into consideration. Urbana Wireless Toolset was used as the computer simulation. Even though it is a powerful tool to predict the radio wave propagation in urban environments, due to the problems about modeling the cities (lack of detail, like the shapes of the buildings, objects and vehicles that could be found in the streets, and other details that would contribute to the propagation mechanisms), it can only give us a trend with some guidelines instead of an exact mapping of propagation.
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Analysis of the Vertical Takeoff and landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) in small unti urban operations /Cason, Roman K. January 2004 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, Sept. 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Susan M. Sanchez. Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-65). Also available online.
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Aggregate models for target acquisition in urban terrainMlakar, Joseph A. January 2004 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research and M.S. in Applied Mathematics)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Craig W. Rasmussen, Thomas M. Cioppa. "June 01, 2004." Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-132). Also available in print.
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Analyzing the effects of Urban combat on daily casualty ratesYazilitas, Hakan 06 1900 (has links)
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited / This study explores whether the attacker's daily casualty rate (DCR) changes according to the terrain. The data set is a part of a larger database, Division Level Engagement Database from the Dupuy Institute. There are data on 253 battles, 96 of which occurred in urban areas. All the engagements are selected from European Theater of Operation (ETO) in World War II. The available data set contains measurements about the battles like initial strengths, daily casualties, terrain, front width, linear density, attacker's and defender's country, and armor losses. Hypothesis tests are used to find if the DCR is different in urban operations. A linear regression model is constructed to predict outcomes of similar engagements and to see the effect of each variable. It is concluded that the attacker's daily casualty rate is, on average, lower in urban operations. Terrain and force ratio are the most effective drivers of the daily casualty rate. In addition, it is seen that allied forces (U.S., U.K. and Canada) had a different approach to Military Operations on Urban Terrain than Soviet and German forces. The Allies used extensive combat power in urban operations. / First Lieutenant, Turkish Army
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Improving the survivability of agents in a first-person shooter urban combat simulation by incorporating military skillsSingh, Ashish C., January 2007 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.S. in computer science)--Washington State University, December 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79).
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Analyzing the effects of Urban combat on daily casualty rates /Yazilitas, Hakan. January 2004 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Samuel E. Buttrey. Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74). Also available online.
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