December 1997 US$ 6.00
Volume 2, Number 3 December 1997 US$ 6.00 Iranian Casualties in the Iran–Iraq War: A Reappraisal Also in this issue: Time and Breakpoints in the Some Thoughts on the Mobility TNDM Equation A Look at the OLIs of APCs, ACs, The TNDM OLI Database IFVs, and CFVs December 1997 1 INTRODUCTION In tribute to what Trevor Dupuy pioneered and in an effort to pursue what he wanted to achieve, TDI continues to amass historical data and strives to refine the combat variables which go into the TNDM. In this issue of our newsletter Christopher Lawrence, Richard Anderson, José Perez, Susan Rich, and Jay Karamales continue to provide information on these efforts. As you, our readers, survey the pages of this issue, you may be curious about the total scope of work of TDI. The paragraphs below outline what is missing in applied military history and what TDI is doing to shore up that deficiency. In other words, here is our core capability: 1. TDI provides independent, objective, historically–based analyses of modern military campaigns. Operations research, as developed during and right after World War II, was based on recorded, detailed data from battles. It is now nearly extinct. It has been supplanted by weapons and systems effects and performance analyses totally devoid of human factors considerations. As a result the Services, particularly the Army, have only partial answers for the development of operational concepts, battle doctrine, weapons requirements, and organizations. Similarly, be- cause they were not historically validated, the Service models and simulations are skewed. Striv- ing for only measured weapons effects and technical systems capabilities, they miss (or signifi- cantly distort) the impact of leadership, training, organization, and psychological factors (such as fear of death) on military units in contact.
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