This individual development elective examines the role of operations research/systems analysis (ORSA) in the military decisionmaking process. Instruction includes selected quantitative techniques to solve command and staff problems. Techniques include set theory, probability, statistics, decision theory, inventory analysis, corvus spreadsheets, game theory and network analysis. A military case study develops insight into the application of these quantitative methods. The course prepares students to make quantitative assessments. Course contents : Meeting 1, Course Introduction, Math Review, and Set Theory; Meeting 2, Probability; Meeting 3, Probability Distributions; Meeting 4, Descriptive and Inferential Statistics; Meeting 6, Inventory Analysis; Meeting 7, Planning and Control Models, Meeting 8, Decision Theory and Game Theory; Meeting 9, Case Study Evaluation Techniques; and Meeting 10, Evaluation of a Case Study in Systems Analysis and Course Review and Critique.