Multipolar Security Cooperation Planning: A Multiobjective, Adversarial-Risk-Analysis Approach

IF 2.5 4区 管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT
William N. Caballero, Ethan Gharst, David L. Banks, J. Weir
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Abstract

In an increasingly competitive environment, defense organizations are met with more difficult decisions than in years past. This problem is especially apparent in security cooperation, that is, defense diplomacy, conducted by the United States. Both the United States and its competitors offer military assistance to third-party nations who, in turn, select an offer based on their own self-interest. Unfortunately, current security cooperation planning practices adopt an ad hoc approach to such problems. Therefore, we set forth herein a decision-analytic-planning framework by (1) provisioning a generic utility model for security cooperation planning applicable to myriad stakeholders and (2) developing a Bayesian solution that allows the stakeholder to select an action that maximizes their expected utility. This combination of value-focused thinking and adversarial risk analysis improves upon standard U.S. defense practices; it tractably encodes planning assumptions and more comprehensively considers the relevant uncertainties. The efficacy of this planning approach is illustrated on a notional U.S. Air Force case study in which a host nation must choose between security assistance from the United States or a competing nation.
多极安全合作规划:多目标、对抗性风险分析方法
在竞争日益激烈的环境中,国防组织面临着比过去更困难的决策。这个问题在美国进行的安全合作,即国防外交中尤为明显。美国及其竞争对手都向第三方国家提供军事援助,而第三方国家则根据自身利益选择援助方案。不幸的是,目前的安全合作规划实践对这类问题采用了一种特别的方法。因此,我们通过(1)提供适用于无数利益相关者的安全合作规划的通用实用模型,(2)开发一个贝叶斯解决方案,允许利益相关者选择一个使其预期效用最大化的行动,在此提出了一个决策分析-规划框架。这种以价值为中心的思维和对抗性风险分析的结合改进了标准的美国国防实践;它可追溯地编码规划假设,并更全面地考虑相关的不确定性。这种规划方法的有效性在一个假想的美国空军案例研究中得到了说明,在这个案例研究中,东道国必须在来自美国或竞争国家的安全援助之间做出选择。
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Decision Analysis
Decision Analysis MANAGEMENT-
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