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Counting activity and assessing progress are different tasks. Arnhart and King examine military assessment as a process of relating evidence to objectives, with attention to the people who define the questions, collect the data, and use the findings. The chapter discusses campaign, operational, and training assessment, combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, and addresses practical difficulties in establishing a useful assessment process. It does not offer a single measure that settles every assessment question. Instead, readers are asked to connect the intended purpose, available observations, and organizational setting before deciding what a reported result can support.
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Lynette M.B. Arnhart; Marvin L. King III. (2024). Military Assessments. In Natalie M. Scala & James P. Howard, II (Eds.), Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research (2nd ed., pp. 141–166). Chapman & Hall/CRC. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003396307-6
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