A Comparative Overview of OPFOR and FFOR Decision Cycles for Battlefield Deception Planning

This report reviews available open-source literature on U.S. Army and Soviet style tactical operations. Findings have been synthesized to provide battlefield deception planners with an overview of decision cycles and information flow processes used by these respective military organizations. The rep...

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Hauptverfasser: Moan, Kenneth L, Broz, Alfons L, Zaklad, Allen L, Bulger, John P
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Zusammenfassung:This report reviews available open-source literature on U.S. Army and Soviet style tactical operations. Findings have been synthesized to provide battlefield deception planners with an overview of decision cycles and information flow processes used by these respective military organizations. The report includes a section comparing differences between U.S. operations planning and Soviet troop control at the tactical level from an information processing perspective. Implications for use of this type of knowledge for battlefield deception planning are suggested. Soviet decision cycle, Soviet troop control, U.S. decision cycle, Battlefield deception, Opposing Force(OPFOR), U.S. Army - Friendly Force(FFOR).