Decision-making is one of the core activities of commanders in operations. Commanders (with the help of staffs) carry out decision making, or the decision-making process in planning, because decision-making processes lie at the heart of planning processes. Commanders’ and staffs’ decision-making consists of the creation and assessment of various alternatives (variants of actions) according to certain aspects (criteria) and their mutual comparison, risk assessment, selection of the most advantageous (optimal) alternative and the adoption of a decision. In this paper, the authors focus on the method of deriving (selecting) a set of criteria from the objectives of the operation and their formulation for subsequent use in the creation, analysis, comparison and selection of a variant of action. The reason the authors carefully examine the significance of the influence of criteria on commanders' decisions is primarily the fact that these actions are not elaborated in detail in Alliance documents, which may subsequently affect the choice of optimal variants (decisions) regarding the actions of their own troops in joint (NATO) operations.
The author of the paper presents possible approach to the issue of analyzing and assessing the operational capabilities of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic for their employment in individual types of operations. Total summary of all the impacts and contexts is out of the scope of this paper due to wide range of the subject matter being analyzed. Keywords: Operation, operational capabilities, network analysis, network graph, DOTMLPFI concept.
The military decision-making process (MDMP) plays a decisive role in planning an operation at the tactical level. The core of the whole process is a series of gradually performed activities (phases and individual planning steps), the second phase of which is the creation of variants of friendly activities (Courses of Action – COAs), in which the variants are prepared, analyzed and compared. During the creation of variants of activities, the staff (designated teams) prepares various variants which are then analyzed and compared. The aim of the preparation of variants is to determine one or more variants to accomplish the combat task (objectives of the operation). The variant then represents an acceptably developed plan for the anticipated adversary course of action (ACOA). The authors of the article focus on developing the use of the “decision trees” method in the preparation of variants of friendly activities. The authors attempt to examine the use of this systematic-analytical method for the preparation of variants of friendly activities, where decision-making takes place in several stages. The creation of variants is carried out according to NATO documents with the use of simulation methods, which can be incorporated into the stage decision-making process and used in combination with the decision tree method.
This paper deals with the use of military symbology in accordance with the current standard of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) APP–6C from 2012. It analyses the current state of the topic, especially the available resources dedicated to military symbology and schemes of tactical activities of units. The paper defines the procedures and principles in creating tactical symbols and principles for their use in tactical situations. One of the annexes of is an overview of the most common tactical symbols, which provides a standardized, structured set of graphic symbols identifying the most common units, equipment, lines, areas and maneuvers with respect to the current state of the Army of the Czech Republic. This examination also provides the user, through the presentation of MS Office, a comprehensive overview of tactical symbols, as well as short instructions for their use. These symbols can also be removed from the presentation and can be used by the user as the necessary basis for creating one’s own diagrams of tactical situations. The next part of this thesis deals with the design of new variants of schemes selected for use in tactical operations of a battalion task force. This schema set is available to the user as well in a presentation of MS Office. Individual schemes are drawn to ensure the required clarity and so this presentation can be used for teaching and by students. This work is a learning tool which can be used by students of The University of Defense especially in subjects like Tactics of Units and Tactics of Formations and, other fields of study as well as in military practices of the units of the Army of the Czech Republic (ACR).
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