Research On The Method Of Integrated Analyzing Tactics And Equipment In War Design Engineering

How to deal with the challenges from researching on the war complex system isthe core problem of military research and an important impetus of the development ofmilitary theory. In order to win the victory players of the war system try their best tocreate strategies, so their strategies are creative and uncertain. These uncertainties oftheir strategies contribute to un-repeatability which is the essential character of warcomplex systems. As the theorythat gives voice to challenges of complexityof the warcomplexsystem,WarDesignEngineering(WDE)isbasedontheun-repeatabilityofthewar complex system. And its basic idea is that the spiral development of groupcognitionis applied to deal with the complex of war systems to make strategies spirallydevelop.Thecarrierofgroupcognition'sspiraldevelopmentinWDEistheplay'sstrategieswhich are classified into two classes: tactics and weapon equipments. Because of oneperson's limited cognitional ability and complexity of war system in the era ofinformation, the play's strategies are drawn up and carried out bydifferent departmentsand people, which breaks the interactive relation between tactics and weaponequipments and tactics-weapons matching. On the other hand, because the war is a coreinterest zero-sum gaming, every player must take advantage of the tactics-weaponsrelationship, and design tactics and weapons simultaneously, and make the tactics andweapons become organic. From above analysis, it is a contradiction that tactics analysisandweaponsdevelopmentaredividedinpracticebuttheymustbeorganicintheory.Toresolve this contradiction, the method of Integratedly Analyzing Tactics and Equipment(IATE) in WDE is brought forward. The theoryfoundation, the method framework, theengineering technique and the application demonstrations of IATE are discussed toexpound how to solve the contradiction. The main contents and fruits of this paper areoutlinedasfollows:Firstly, the theory of WDE which is the theoretical basis of IATE is analyzed andsummarized. The challenges from researching on the war complex system are studiessystematically. Basedon thesechallenges,accordingtodistributedcognitiontheorytwoprinciples of researching complex problems (dia-logical principle and iterativeprinciple), four-dimension framework of WDE is presented, i.e., objective dimension,logical dimension, organizational dimension and technique dimension. And verydimension's means and relationships of dimensions are discussed. So the system ofWDEtheoryisenrichedanddeveloped.Secondly, the mechanism of IATE is researched, which is composed of threeiterative processes that are constituted by the dia-logical principle and the iterativeprinciple, and described by differential game in detail. Based on the mechanism, the framework of IATE is put forward, which is composed of four sub-processes thatconstitute iterative relationships. Four sub-processes are discussing future scenariorestriction, discussing strategies, building the effect model and re-thinking based oneffects. Furthermore, the relationship of sub-processes, the pattern of group experts'cooperation,andthepatternofintegratingquantitativeanalysiswithqualitativeanalysisisstudied.Thirdly, the first sub-process of the framework in IETA, i.e., discussing futurescenario restriction, is studied. The method of scenario plan in IATE is brought forthbased on the conception of scenario plan. Furthermore, the method of focusingproblemin the future scenario isstudied. And the normalizing description of future scenario inIATEisputforward.Fourthly, the second sub-process of the framework in IETA, i.e., discussingstrategies, is studied. Three sub-task of this sub-process, i.e., discussing the player'sown strategies, discussing the counterworker's rival strategies, evaluating qualitativelyand mending strategies, are studied based on summarizing main methods of discussion,including the organizational pattern of discussion and the cooperation pattern of groupexperts.Fifthly, the third sub-process of the framework in IETA, i.e., building the effectmodel, is studied. The method of building conception model based on the result of thesecond sub-process, i.e., the pattern of combining tactics with equipments,is discussed.According to the conception of chain model, the conception of strategies'effect chainmodel and the method of building an effect chain model are brought out based onconception models.The effect chain model is constituted byseven sectors, furthermorethe transform formulations of effects of information action and firepower action in verysectorisputforward.Sixthly, the third sub-process of the framework in IETA, i.e., re-thinking based oneffects, is studied. The re-thinking framework based on effects is present, which canmake the range of re-thinking and the depth of re-thinking increase constantly.According to the Business Process Reengineering (BPR), the conception of OperationProcess Reengineering (OPR) is brought out based on the request of re-thinkingframework. And according the Value Chain (VC), the conception of MilitaryInformation Value Chain (MIVC) is brought forth based on the effect chain model. Thecomplete Re-thinking rules is established, which make re-thinking beyond the range ofquantitativechangestheonthebasisofOPRandMIVC.Seventhly, two application demonstrations are studied. The demonstration ofgaining mastery of the air is analyzed to demonstrate the basic process of IATA inWDE. Furthermore, the demonstration of analyzing the effects of the anti-ship missilefrom submarines isstudiedtodemonstratehow to buildtheeffect chainmodel andhowtore-thinkbasedonOPRandMIVC.