Further Exploration in Estimating the Military Value of Training

Abstract
This report describes the continuation of work started earlier to find ways of quantifying the military value of training. The earlier work used a large-scale simulation model of warfare to examine the potential effects of assumed force improvements imputed to training on the outcome of a postulated war in Europe. The work described in this report gathered some of the available data showing the effects of training on force effectiveness, and it estimated the cost of training, in the areas of platoon-size armored combat and bombing accuracy by tactical attack aircraft. These results were compared with the results of analyses describing the effects of equipment improvement in the same areas of unit combat. The report shows the size of the effects in each case, and it evaluates the relative contributions of training and hardware advances to improvement of force effectiveness and the relative costs of the two approaches. Conclusions are reached about preferred approaches to such evaluations, and desirable future elaborations of the research are outlined.

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