Challenges of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation

There are many good books written on the topics of combat modeling and distributed simulation and most of them are used as references in this book, so why write another book on this topic? The reason is simple: while all other books in this domain successfully highlight special topics in detail none of them compiles the basic knowledge of all contributing fields that a simulation engineer needs to be aware of, in particular when he or she starts a job. To my knowledge, none of the existing books give the required holistic overview of combat modeling and distributed simulation needed to get a primary understanding of the challenges. An editorial remark: in this book I will address the simulation engineer in the male form—using he or his as pronouns—without implying that female engineers are less common or qualified; I just prefer to address the engineer simply as he instead of complex he/she combinations or the impersonal it. There are good books that focus on various topics of combat modeling, but they do not look at what modeling decisions mean for the ensuing simulation task(s). Other books introduce the engineer to the specifics, such as specific Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards for simulation interoperability, but they assume that no modeling needs to be done by