Knowing the True Adversary: Acculturating Behavior Models for Wargaming

"We propose a decision aid that will give military planners, from battle commanders to psychological operators, a handle on the nature and behavior of adversarial forces in an unfamiliar cultural climate. The aid will provide products including intelligencecollection requirements, profiles of adversaries relevant to PSYOPS, and simulation capabilities at various levels of abstraction, from determining adversaries' strategic goals to wargaming actual battlefield scenarios at the platoon level. The system willconsist of a general model for the effects of culture on decision making and behavior, authoring and automated analysis techniques for applying this model to specific tactical situations, and a mechanism for execution of behavior in existing militarysimulations. We will develop a cultural model based on the Cultural Lens model of cultural differences in military domains developed by our consultant Klein Associates Inc., as well as a case-based reasoning engine that uses past examples of scenarios andgroups with specific cultural traits. We will use existing software components and authoring tools, allowing us to focus our effort on the representations and artificial intelligence algorithms necessary to define and apply cultural aspects of behavior anddecision-making to simulation. We will demonstrate and evaluate our design with a proof-of-concept prototype. This project is applicable to all areas of Information Operations, Psychol