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60 Tactical Assessment Tactical Assessment Tactical Assessment Unit & Component Unit & Component Unit & Component Campaign Assessment Campaign Assessment Campaign Assessment JFC JFC JFC National Assessment National Assessment National Assessment National Leadership National Leadership National Leadership Assessment Level Responsible Agent Operational Assessment Operational Assessment Operational Assessment Component Component Component Figure 4.2. Four Levels of Assessment objectives. Quantitative measures, on the other hand, can, through their very seeming certainty, take on a life of their own, leading to actions that do not contribute to accomplishing objectives or the end state. For example, during DESERT STORM, strategic attack missions took down key nodes to deny power within the Iraqi electrical system. This effect was accomplished with little destruction of Iraqi civilian electrical power infrastructure. Nonetheless, many power generator plants were destroyed later in the campaign, in part because traditional empirical measurements of electrical capacity showed that the Iraqis still had substantial usable resources. This hampered civilian recovery following the campaign. This example also points out the importance of integrating assessment into employment planning and target development efforts early on. THE FOUR LEVELS OF ASSESSMENT Assessment consists of four distinct but interrelated levels: › Tactical Assessment: Determination of the effectiveness of kinetic and non-kinetic tactical military operations through empirical and objective methods