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Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Military Simulation

Part VII

The Complete Computer Simulation of Operation Barbarossa: 22nd June to 31st December 1941

Part VII  is currently a work in progress. It currently includes the following partially completed components:

1.    The Space and Time Question in Military Simulations
        1) Space and Scale Considerations
        2) Time Segmentation Considerations
        3) Realism Estimates and Limitations


2.    Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Military Simulation
       (Computer Application Accompanying Part VII of This Book)
         1) Topographical Map of the Western USSR: 7km per hex (currently completed)
         2) The Simulation's Resource Database
         2) The Land Combat Model, and Land Movement, Equations and Mechanics


3.    Historical and Current Results of War Gaming Operation Barbarossa
        1) The Battle of Smolensk and the Diversion of Army Group Centre away from the Moscow-Smolensk 
            Axis in August 1941

        2) The southern Flank of Army Group Centre, and the offensives by Army Group South, in                                     August-October 1941
        3) Soviet Mobilisation from June to December 1941, particularly in the Moscow-Gorki Space
        4) The Soviet Rail Network in the Western USSR
        5) Logistics and Supply Distribution Efficiency (SDE) of the Belligerent Forces

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