Development of Measures for Assessment of Activities in the Planning Process at the Tactical Level

Abstract

The rapidly changing political and military situation in the NATO area of interest and in areas adjacent to this area creates a wide range of threats that must be taken into account during planning, both in peacetime and in times of crisis and armed conflict. The multi-directional and multi-faceted nature of the resulting threat requires a flexible planning process that adapts appropriately to potential actions. Operational art, from a scientific and pragmatic perspective, fulfills practical, theoretical, and didactic functions. The practical function is the ability to transform military strategy goals and guidelines into guidelines and tasks for task forces, taking into account innovative theoretical assumptions and the rational achievement of operational objectives. The practical function is expressed in operational plan-ning and command skills and also encompasses managerial functions. The challenge of operational planning and command is the skillful integration of operational factors (forces, time, space, information) with the operational objective. Operational art integrates objectives, ways, and means. It determines which forces conduct which actions in time and space to create effects and achieve objectives. The active participation of the commander is essential in operational art because it is a mixture of science and art requiring intuition, experience, and leadership. Nowadays, operational researchers and planners are in-creasingly interested not only in extracting data from recent conflicts, but also in obtaining quantitative assessments on the trends or effects of weapons and combat processes in modern warfare as revealed in these data. The subject of the research presented in this article is measures of the assessment of the conduct of operations. Instead, the research problem focuses on how to develop measures for assessing the conduct (progress) of operations and the method of applying them to contemporary planning proce-dures. The problem formulated in this way creates the conditions to seek an answer to the question of whether it is possible to develop an algorithm to develop metrics to evaluate the conduct of activities as a tool during simulation.