Sunday, February 10, 2008 :::
 

Sim Iraq











Maire de Bagdhad, un job de tout repos.

The Pentagon has issued a call for a developers to build "a highly interactive, PC-based Human, Social and Culture Behavioral Modeling simulation tool to support training for military planners for handling insurgencies, small wars, and/or emergent conflicts."

The aim is to better understand the socio-cultural context in which these military missions operate. What is needed is a Rapid Ethnographic Assessment program: New models and methodologies to improve and augment the data collection efforts being undertaken in these missions. This capability will ensure that military analysts will not just collect data, but also be able to know what data matters, in order to make sense of tribal, ethnic and social class relationships, understand environmental factors (for example, the control of water in arid climates), land rights, disputes, the role of religion in everyday life, and the structure of the elites, to name but a few examples relevant to military operations. Candidate methodologies include: cognitive anthropology, social network analysis, other methodologies with a structuralist focus, linguistics, applied anthropology, development anthropology, and computational approaches. This effort will provide analysts with new capabilities for analyzing ethnographic data in ways that are informed by ethnological theory and modern anthropological approaches. A rich, scientifically sound, description of society and the relationships of the various parts of society, will be the result of rapid ethnographic assessment.

Le bus de l'école.

Already developed by Purdue University, the “synthetic environment for analysis and simulations” gobble[s] up breaking news, census data, economic indicators, and climactic events in the real world, along with proprietary information such as military intelligence. Iraq and Afghanistan computer models are the most highly developed and complex. Each has about five million individual nodes that represent entities such as hospitals, mosques, pipelines and people...

Les IED se font de plus en plus puissantes et dévastatrices.

Originally, it was developed to help Fortune 500 companies with strategic planning. It was also used to model the population of the United States that is eligible for military service to help the Army recruit potential soldiers.

In Iraq last year, the SEAS technology served as the basis of the Urban Resolve 2015 war game, said Ozolek. “We were really exploring how we change the conditions of the urban environment so the urban insurgencies don’t exist.”

Articles ici, là et là.

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