Research for Military Experimentation

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Wotan's Workshop: Military Experiments Before WW II
December 1, 2005
This paper examines an instructive set of pre-World War II military experiments to increase understanding of the process of military experimentation,. The paper discusses what an experiment is, the types of models or modeling used, and the issues of technology surrogates and artificialities in answering the key question at hand.
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The Practice of Military Experimentation
February 1, 2003
Abstract:D7581 This paper is intended for the Major or Lt Commander newly given a military experimentation assignment. It describes the nature of military experiments, what they do, why they are needed, and how they are conducted. Hypotheses, accuracy, realism, fidelity, truth and cheating are discussed, along with characteristics of successful experimentation and obstacles to effective experimentation. The paper also addresses data collection, reconstruction, analysis, and report writing, and supplies a general military-experimentation template.
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