EAN: 9780792398585

MILITARY OPERATIONS RESEARCH - NK JAISWAL GEBUNDEN

Operations Research (OR) emerged in an effort to improve the effectiveness of newly inducted
weapons and equipment during World War II. While rapid growth ofOR led to its becoming an
important aid to decision making in all sectors including defense  its contribution in defense
remained largely confined to classified reports. Very few books dealing with applications of
quantitative decision making techniques in military have been published presumably due to
limited availability ofrelevant information. The situation changed rapidly during the last few
years. The recognition of the subject of Military Operations Research (MOR) gave tremendous
boost to its development. Books and journals on MOR started appearing. The number of sessions
on MOR at national and international conferences also registered an increase. The volume of
teaching  training and research activities in the field of MOR at military schools and
non-military schools enhanced considerably. Military executives and commanders started taking
increasing interest in getting scientific answers to questions pertaining to weapon acquisition
threat perception and quantification  assessment of damage or casualties  evaluation of chance
of winning a battle  force mix  deployment and targeting of weapons against enemy targets  war
games and scenario evaluation. Most of these problems were being tackled on the basis of
intuition  judgment and experience or analysis under very simple assumptions. In an
increasingly sophisticated and complex defense scenario resulting in advances in equipment and
communications  the need for supplementing these practices by scientific research in MOR became
imperative.

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