A theory of ideal linear weights for heterogeneous combat forces

David R. Howes and Robert M. Thrall

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1973, vol. 20, issue 4, 645-659

Abstract: Detailed combat simulations can produce effectiveness tables which measure the effectiveness of each weapon class on one side of an engagement, battle, or campaign to each weapon class on the other. Effectiveness tables may also be constructed in other ways This paper assumes that effectiveness tables are given and shows how to construct from them a system of weapon weights each of which is a weighted average of the effects of a given weapon against each of the enemy's weapons. These weights utilize the Perron‐ Frobenius theory of eigenvectors of nonnegative matrices. Methods of calculation are discussed and some interpretations are given for both the irreducible and reducible cases.

Date: 1973
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