An inventory of wargaming models for special warfare: Candidate applications for the infusion of human performance data

Abstract

The material contained in this compendium has been drawn from many sources in an attempt to define the number and types of small group combat simulation models which currently exist. The emphasis placed on this particular effort was to identify combat simulation models which are oriented or could be oriented toward special warfare involving highly trained, light, mobile forces. These descriptions and characterizations of the different simulation models should be viewed with the goal of infusing human performance data and human performance models into candidate simulation models to enhance both fidelity and realism. We feel that this listing will be of direct benefit to military and civilian scientists who are interested in identifying candidate combat simulation models which can be targeted for enhancement with appropriate human performance data. Few existing models reviewed were found to incorporate laboratory or field data drawn from the behavioral sciences or human performance literature. Several models did incorporate human performance assumptions which were found to be incongruent with real world data about how people behave under various environmental conditions and both physical and cognitive stress.