A Taxonomy for the Vulnerability/Lethality Analysis Process

Abstract

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The Nexus of Military Missions and Means

“…Based on the aforementioned principles, we can now begin to develop an abstraction to better conceptualize the mission-means connection. To do this, we start with the Vulnerability/Lethality (V/L) Taxonomy, which was first formalized in the mid-1980s to construct the direct-fire vulnerability model SQuASH in support of the Army Abrams Live-Fire program [Deitz and Ozolins, 1989;Deitz et al, 1990;Klopcic et al, 1992;Deitz, 1996;Deitz and Starks, 1999;Klopcic, 1999] and was later revised and adapted to generate a new vulnerability environment for ground and air targets [Hanes et al, 1991;Juarascio et al, 1998;Juarascio and Keithley, 2000;Mergler and Steelman, 1999], to improve estimation of personnel casualties and operational effectiveness [Frew and Killion, 1996], and to form the foundation for the V/L portion of the Tri-Service Advanced Joint Effectiveness Model (AJEM) [Wasmund, 2000;AJEM Development Team, 2001]. …”

Quantifying Capability Vectors

“…The vulnerability/lethality (V/L) process was envisioned to be a series of mappings and spaces (Deitz and Ozolins 1989). Klopcic, Starks, and Walbert (1992) formalized this process, discussing the scientific process behind V/L analysis and introducing the V/L taxonomy shown in Figure 1. Walbert (1994) addressed the concept of granularity within the V/L analysis process.…”