  This paper is concerned with introducing a framework in which the operational
effectiveness of a dismounted combat team can be assessed. It has been
motivated by studies at Defence Science and Technology Group which have focused
on the structure of the future dismounted fighting force. In order to determine
the operational effectiveness of different combat team designs a metric, based
upon simple additive weighting of warfighting functions, is proposed. This then
allows a single measure of expected performance to be produced. The model
itself is a preliminary attempt to capture essential features of dismounted
combat, and the study will indicate how it can then be applied in practice.
Discussion on model refinement, based upon subject matter expert data
elicitation, is also included.
