Effects-Based Operations (EBO): A Grand Challenge for the Analytical Community

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The impetus for this monograph was provided by a project on forcetransformation for the Commander in Chief, U.S. Joint Forces Com-mandand his Director of Joint Experimentation (J-9) and a projecton advanced modeling methods for the United States Air Force Re-searchLaboratory. The monograph also drew on the research of across-cutting project on transformation concepts for the Office of theSecretary of Defense and Joint Staff. This study should be of interestto both civilian and military consumers of analysis and the analystsand modelers who seek to inform development of military forces anddoctrine.The work reported here was conducted in RAND's National DefenseResearch Institute (NDRI) and Project AIR FORCE. These organi-zationsare federally funded research and development centers(FFRDCs) for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff,Unified Commands, and Defense Agencies; and for the United StatesAir Force, respectively. Comments are welcome and should be ad-dressedto the author at RAND:e-mail: pdavis@rand. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul K. Davis (Ph.D., M.I.T., Chemical Physics) is a Senior Scientist and Research Leader at RAND. EXCERPT. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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