Combat Modeling - Alan Washburn Moshe Kress Gebunden

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 experienc e 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.