Modeling knowledge in combat models

How to measure the effects of information on combat outcomes remains unclear. Attempts have been made, but few actually establish the link. Doing so is important to the military at this time when it is spending a considerable amount of its scarce investment capital on information technology. In this paper, we suggest a model of knowledge that uses information entropy to measure the commander's current knowledge. The metric is also used to explain information superiority and the concept is applied to the Army's Combat Sample Generator.