The Dynamics of Military Combat

Howard Brackney
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Howard Brackney: Convair (Astronautics) Division of General Dynamics Corporation, San Diego, California

Operations Research, 1959, vol. 7, issue 1, 30-44

Abstract: In this paper the essentials of warfare are given theoretical treatment in a particularly simple way. A theory of warfare, i.e., a combat dynamics, is derived that is in close agreement with what man has learned about war through his use of it. To the theoretical work of earlier investigators the present study adds a reconnaissance concept and a weapons concept both being stated in explicit mathematical form. The theoretical dynamics appears to be applicable to warfare in the nuclear age.

Date: 1959
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