Combat Modeling is a systematic learning resource and reference text for the quantitative
analysis of combat. After a brief overview authors Washburn and Kress present individual
chapters on shooting without feedback shooting with feedback target defense attrition models
game theory and wargames search unmanned aerial vehicles and terror and insurgency. Three
appendices provide a review of basic probability concepts probability distributions and
Markov models an introduction to optimization models and a discussion of Monte-Carlo
simulations. Drawing on their many years of experience at the Naval Postgraduate School in
Monterey California Washburn and Kress have created a reference that will provide the tools
and techniques for analysts involved in the underpinnings of combat decisions. This is a book
that can be used as a military manual reference book and textbook for military courses on
this vital subject.
