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Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Military Simulation
Military Simulations, and the General Structure of the Integrated Land and Air Resource Model
1. Military History through Simulations
1) The Evolution of Military Simulations and War Gaming
2) The Power of Military Simulations in the Study of Military History
3) Military Simulation Methodology: the Difference between Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
4) Tactical, Tactical-Operational, Operational and Strategic Military Simulations
a. Tactical Level Simulations
b. Tactical-Operational Level Simulations
c. Operational Level Simulations
d. Strategic Level Simulations
2. The Integrated Land and Air Resource Model
1) What is an Integrated Land and Air Resource Model?
a. The Underlying Principles
b. The Fully Integrated Land and Air Resource Model
(FILARM)
c. Partially Integrated Land and
Air Resource Model (PILARM)
d. Naval Forces Involved in Operation Barbarossa
2) The Objectives of the Integrated Land and Air Resource Model
a. The Strategic Context of the Military Campaign:
Bottlenecks in the Mobilisation Process
b. The Actual Personnel and Equipment Present
c. Combat Unit Mobility
d. Efficiency of Supporting Infrastructures
e. Replacements
f. New Equipment
g. Operational Freedom of Action (within the
Simulation)
3. The Structure of the Fully Integrated Land and Air Resource Model (FILARM)
(Separate Diagram: FILARM Structure and Flow Diagram)
1) Resource Sources, Destinations and Paths outside the FILARM Model
2) Resource Reallocation Paths within the FILARM Model
3) Resource Allocation States inside the FILARM Model
a. Combat Units: D, MD and MND
i. Deployed (D)
ii. Mobilised and Deployed (MD)
iii. Mobilised and Not Deployed (MND)
b. Supply and Support Infrastructure
c. Reserves and Replacements (R)
i. Replacements (R)
ii. Campaign Start Reserves
iii. Campaign Reserves
4) Combat Unit Processes inside the FILARM Model
a. Checking the TOE Authorisation of a Deployed (D)
Combat Unit
b. Check the TOE Authorisation of
a MD or MND Combat Unit
c. The Combat
Process
i. Key Terms and Concepts used in
the Combat Process
ii. Outcomes of
the Combat Process
d. The
Attrition Process
i. Outcomes of
the Attrition Process
e. The Disband
and Shatter process
i. Combat Unit
Shattering
ii. Combat Unit Disbandment
4. The Structure of the Partially Integrated Land and Air Resource Model (PILARM)
1) Resource Sources, Destinations and Paths outside the PILARM Model
2) Resource Allocation States inside the PILARM Model
a. Combat Units: D and Reinforcement Units
i. Deployed (D)
ii. Reinforcement Units
b. Reserves and Replacements (R)
i. Replacements (R)
ii. Front Campaign Reserves
3) Combat Unit Processes inside the PILARM Model
a. Checking the TOE Authorisation of a Reinforcement
Combat Unit
5. Military Simulation Concepts and Definitions
6. The Order of Battle (OOB): the Force Deployment Matrices
7. Tables of Organisation and Equipment (TOE)
1) TOE Representation in a Table Format
(Separate Diagram: TOE Soviet Rifle Division, April 1941, Table Format)
(Separate Diagram: TOE Soviet Rifle Division, April 1941, Chart Format)
8. The Heterogeneous Model vs. the Homogeneous Model
1) The Heterogeneous Model
2) The Homogeneous Model and the Use of Checksums
9. Supply Distribution Efficiency (SDE)
1) Supply Lift
2) Supply Demand
10. A Divisional Sized or Division Equivalent Combat Unit in WWII
1) What was a Divisional Sized Combat Unit in 1941?
2) Measuring Whether a Combat Unit
can Reasonably be Called a Divisional Sized Combat Unit
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