Representation of historical events in a military campaign simulation model

Dstl has sponsored the development and use of several campaign level models of military operations. The models are required to provide insight into force assessment, procurement decisions of future concepts and for investigations into potential doctrinal developments. COMAND is a theatre level representation of the naval air (maritime) campaign. COMAND also contains a simple representation of the joint force influence on the land campaign. COMAND is a stochastic model, and runs on a desktop PC under Windows NT. The key to COMAND is the representation of command and control aspects of the campaign, with representation of sensor and communication systems, information flows, command decision making, combat and perception of the battlefield. As part of the process to establish the validation status of COMAND, an attempt was made to replicate the 1982 Falkland Islands Campaign. This attempt was largely successful, and provided much information on the strengths and weaknesses of the model.