We introduce a new agent-based model of historical warfare, designed to maintain a structure of command between a regiment and its soldiers. It can model various tactics of different kinds of military forces and is simple enough to build massive simulations. The model is used to simulate the Battle of Kokenhausen (1601), waged between armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdom...

ROSS |7] is an object-oriented language developed for building knowledge-based simulations [4l. SWIRL |5, 6] is a program written in ROSS that embeds knowledge about defensive and offensive air battle strategies. Given an initial configuration of military forces, SWIRL simulates the resulting air battle. We have implemented ROSS and SWIRL in several different Lisp environments. We report upon t...

Intuitive Battle Dynamics concerns the understanding of time. The rapid changes in today’s society give us less time for reflection and thinking. A commander needs to develop sensitivity to the changes in the battlefield to be able to control the situation. To find out what sensitivity is needed and in a further perspective to be able to train command and control in dynamic processes we have us...

It is shown that the radiological burden due to the battle-field use of circa 400 tons of depleted-uranium munitions in Iraq (and of about 40 tons in Yugoslavia) is comparable to that arising from the hypothetical battle-field use of more than 600 kt (respectively 60 kt) of high-explosive equivalent pure-fusion fourth-generation nuclear weapons. Despite the limited knowledge openly available on...