The validity of assumptions underlying current uses of Lanchester attrition rates

C. J. Ancker and A. V. Gafarian

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 1987, vol. 34, issue 4, 505-533

Abstract: This study examines critically the various assumptions, results, and concepts that exist to date in the literature and scientific community concerning the relationships among the Lanchester, stochastic Lanchester, and the general renewal models of combat. Many of the prevailing understandings are shown to be erroneous.

Date: 1987
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