Knowledge-Based Planning Model for Courses of Action Generation

摘要

U.S. Army War College students of the Class of 1986 were solicited to participate in a Military Studies Program to develop a planning model for Courses of Action Generation. The Model was to be knowledge-based, i.e., drawn from the collective experience of officers with operational/planning backgrounds. The purpose of this document is to summarize the results of the four knowledge engineering sessions conducted. The detailed results are at enclosures 1-4, each enclosure acting as an agreed-upon record of that engineering session. Initial discussions between the CECLOM computer scientist and the AWC students concerned the potential for automation of the process of developing a scheme of maneuver. It was the opinion of the students that some aspects of the process would be extremely difficult to include in a computer program - the intent of the commander, for example. While neither student dismissed the potential of artificial intelligence on the battlefield, neither actively sought ways to incorporate it, either. What evolved, therefore, was and exposition by the students of what actually goes on in the minds of commanders and battlefield planners during an active operational environment.