Modern world is all about heated competition amid changes to economic and political environments of each nation and prolific developments in science and technology. Facing the potent threat of North Korea, the Republic of Korea armed forces needs to r...
Modern world is all about heated competition amid changes to economic and political environments of each nation and prolific developments in science and technology. Facing the potent threat of North Korea, the Republic of Korea armed forces needs to respond to the dynamic changes to the security environment epitomized by the developmental changes of the ROK-US alliance and the unidentified threats of the neighboring countries based on the increasing economic mutual interdependency along with politico-military conflict factors. Defense budget invested to overcome such threat factors has not reached exponential increase to the force requirement.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore and propose the new policy model to make a decision on the integrated priority of the force requirement with macro and strategic perspective centered around the planning stage of the PPBEE system, the starting point of the effective allocation of limited defense budget. The study has been carried out to suggest a course of action to unearth the utility and continuously reinforce this policy model from actually applying this and deriving the result to prove its utility. As a result of analyzing force requirement decision data and comparing related decision making methodology and previous model in a critical manner to accomplish the purpose effectively, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), one of the multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) procedures, was elected for application. However, this approach also exposed its own limitation in that agreement upon the evaluation standard and hierarchical structure has to be made, many rounds of bilateral comparison is needed, and simple increasing and decreasing function has to be processed properly. To that notion, a single paradigm to decide the force requirement priority policy model consist of 7 steps is brought about by integrating positives and negatives of prevailing methodologies outside the boundary of the traditional and hierarchical AHP analytical methodology.
The standard of the joint evaluation assessment of the policy model began with setting the basic standard by thoroughly analyzing documental studies, force requirement analysis results, and expert opinions, followed by circulating survey. Final decision was made relying on the experts in-depth discussion. The evaluation standard was categorized into three separate levels of effect analysis, cost analysis, and risk analysis. The effect analysis is consist of total of 20 standards including 3 primary standards, 9 secondary standards, and 8 detailed standards. The cost analysis and risk analysis is consist of 9 standards each, 3 primary and 6 secondary, and 4 primary and 5 secondary respectively. In result, total number of standards of policy model decision making hierarchical structure to decide the force requirement priority is 38.
Common evaluation standard was weighed by bilateral comparison and survey run among agencies in charge of requirement proposal, requirement decision, and research institute. Priority was derived based on the group assessment framework of 5 points action category based on the absolute degree, and the comparison of 10 different alternatives. Especially in this process, weighted B/C/R, an expansion of the hierarchical AHP, was carried out to analyze effect, cost, and risk in a singular model and enhance the utilization.
As a result of this policy model's actual implementation, weighted number of the evaluation standard is highly applicable for its close nature to the core matter related to reality. Alternative priority depicts the correlation between the project priority and effect, cost, and risk wise stability, requiring the development of scientific and rational requirement proposal system. In terms of sensitivity, highly touted alternatives were proven to be superbly distinctive, solidifying its trust.
Therefore, this policy model is expected to be the unbiased and strategic force requirement priority decision methodology taking into account direct and indirect effect, available budget, expected project risk of force requirement from the planning procedure, boasting objectivity, transparency, and efficiency. In addition, this framework is expected to offer a macro resource allocation guideline to construct a purpose fitting combat power inside the force planning picture.
Finally, it is with strong confidence that this study will serve a stepping stone to stand against the lack of efforts to come to a rational resolution due to the expertise and broad scope this area entails, though there has been a common agreement to the necessity of such study. Taking into account many complicated factors and accepting many opinions to result to an agreement, the more realistic study based upon the formulated decision making policy model capable of integrating many variables will be more feasible with this work