Evaluation of ISR technologies for counter insurgency warfare

Abstract

This paper compares and contrasts strategies used to test technologies for the Cold War era warfare to the test strategies employed for counter-insurgency warfare. The most important difference is the change from technologies that describe what-where to technologies that additionally describe activities. It will be shown that Cold War test strategies form the lowest, component, level testing for counter-insurgent focused technologies. However, to characterize activities, additional systematic testing is performed. Finally, an effectiveness example is provided to illustrate these concepts.