MILITARY OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Operations research is the discipline that use advances analytical techniques to

take solid decisions and resolve complex problems. These techniques gave an
effective assistance during the Word War II, helping finding radars, search for
enemy submarines and delivery of supplies. In the military sector exist a scientific
society specialized in the methodologies and the military operations research, the
Military Operations Research Society (MORS).
An example how military operations research is use us the system ADANS (Airlift
Deployment Analysis System). This system was used in the conflict of the Persian
Gulf, divided in two operations: Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Desert Shield
mission requires a grand logistic effort to move the air, naval and land forces of 33
countries, approximately a million people, 200 ships, 2400 airplanes, and 2000
helicopters. The first problem they had was the departure of too many airplanes,
the personnel have a maximum hours of flight in periods of 24 hours as a
consequence of the physical wear. So the analysts identified the instant where the
crew reach their operative limits, and call some reservists and allow the permanent
crew to have some rest.
The Storm of the Desert mission was practiced and studied by computer
simulations nearly 300 times, causing the quickly ending of the conflict. The
analysts had to program the optical utilization of airplanes, trails, crew to perform
different tasks, besides they had to consider a number of restrictions to reflect
reality and control the supply chains.
Referencias
Velasquez, J. (s.f.). Insvestigacion de operaciones militares (Military operations research). Obtenido
de http://www.decisionware.net/phocadownload/white-papers/dw-dt-046%20-
%20aplicaciones%20de%20io%20en%20operaciones%20militares.pdf