Strategy selection: an info-gap methodology

Yakov Ben-Haim

Defense & Security Analysis, 2014, vol. 30, issue 2, 106-119

Abstract: The evaluation and selection of military strategy requires consideration of myriad factors -- social, historical, political, geographical and technological -- together with vast uncertainties encompassing all these domains. Info-gap decision theory is a conceptual framework that can support these deliberations and that has substantive implications for the formulation, evaluation and selection of strategic goals and of the means to attain them. In particular, while the analyst may desire to reliably achieve the best possible outcome, info-gap theory provides a critique of, and alternative to, the paradigm of optimizing the outcome of a decision. In selecting between strategy alternatives, the analyst must sometimes choose between one alternative that is purportedly better than another, but also more uncertain. Such a choice is a dilemma whose resolution requires the analyst to balance between the different predicted qualities of each alternative and their different vulnerabilities to uncertainty. The dilemma can be managed with the info-gap methodology of robustly satisfying critical requirements.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2014.894292

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