A Laboratory for Combat Operations Research

The Combat Developments Experimentation Center at Fort Ord, California, has been established to measure the effectiveness of Army organizations and procedures in controlled field experiments. Available are approximately a regiment of troops and 250 square miles of land. A technique of experimentation which requires a previously unattained degree of coordination in the soldier-scientist team has been devised. These experiments are, in essence, Monte Carlo war games played with actual troops and equipment. Only weapons effects are simulated.