Doctrine: Perception and Response.

Military resource management has reached a critical point where many of the analytic tools used in the management process have reached levels of complexity which leave most analysts and decision-makers unable to understand and employ them comfortably. A new technique for controlling the internal operation of one such tool, the Concepts Evaluation Model CEM, the U.S. Armys primary theater-level combat simulation, promises to make the CEM operation more visible and flexible. A tacticianwar game link is developed using a specialized vocabulary having precise program counterparts. The tactician develops a set of contingency-like plans from which the war game evaluates, selects, and executes coordinated actions consistent with the tacticians doctrine. Author