The Planning and Controlling of Infantry and Artillery Joint Combat Operation

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the use of System Dynamics as a device to simulate a system of infantry and artillery cooperating in joint combat operation. The system under study does not represent a real or actual battle-field. The model represents a scenario describes hypothetical system of accepted theoretical structure of how infantry and artillery may co-operate in order to achieve a desired advance on a real battle-field. The paper will give attention to the planning and controlling of any need to such co-operation, and will give better insights to decision makers before and during such joint operations. We make no claim for revealing analysis of any army strategy, and seek only to show how a System Dynamics model could do if it were constructed by people who fully understood the problems and had access to information at which we can only make guesses.