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TDI Friday Read: Battalion-Level Combat Model Validation

Shawn Woodford
November 1, 2019

Today’s Friday Read summarizes a series of posts detailing a validation test of the Tactical Numerical Deterministic Model (TNDM) conducted by TDI in 1996. The test was conducted using a database of 76 historical battalion-level combat engagements ranging from World War I through the post-World War II era. It is provided here as an example of how such testing can be done and how useful it can be, despite skepticism expressed by some in the U.S. operations research and modeling and simulation community.

Validating A Combat Model

Validating A Combat Model (Part II)

Validating A Combat Model (Part III)

Validating A Combat Model (Part IV)

Validating A Combat Model (Part V)

Validating A Combat Model (Part VI)

Validating A Combat Model (Part VII)

Validating A Combat Model (Part VIII)

Validating A Combat Model (Part IX)

Validating A Combat Model (Part X)

Validating A Combat Model (Part XI)

Validating A Combat Model (Part XII)

Validating A Combat Model (Part XIII)

Shawn Woodford

Shawn Robert Woodford, Ph.D., is a military historian with nearly two decades of research, writing, and analytical experience on operations, strategy, and national security policy. His work has focused on special operations, unconventional and paramilitary warfare, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, naval history, quantitative historical analysis, nineteenth and twentieth century military history, and the history of nuclear weapon development. He has a strong research interest in the relationship between politics and strategy in warfare and the epistemology of wargaming and combat modeling.

All views expressed here are his and do not reflect those of any other private or public organization or entity.

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