| In order to meet the requirements of a post Cold War, international environment the U.S. Army has embarked on a process to transform it's 20th Century, heavy, forward-deployed force to a lighter, more strategically mobile, objective force structure that can continue to support the nation's national strategy.;The Future Strike Force concept experiment employed a novel approach to validate a futuristic force-structure concept. Taking a force-structure concept developed by the Army's material community, the FSF experiment compared five force-structure concept variants using an updated experimental methodology and the most sophisticated simulation's suite currently in use by the Army's Training and Doctrine Command. The result of the experiment was a future, force-structure concept that is not only lighter and more strategically mobile than today's heavy force structure, but one that is inherently more capable. While the results of the experiment validated a particular force-structure concept, its novel experimental methodology proved premature. An inability to translate experimental results from one simulation environment and phase to another demonstrated a requirement for greater simulations' capability and integration before the Army's current concept-experiment methodology can be evolved. |
