EAN: 9783319561073

MILITARY OPERATIONAL PLANNING AND STRATEGIC MOV...

This book employs game theory to warfare and in particular to military operations. It aims at
scrutinizing the validity of the two ideas that have governed the literature on war and
warfighting: One is the Clausewitzian Fog of War  which suggests that he who is able to see
through the gunsmoke and observe his opponent's moves before he has to commit to some strategy
himself  should be able to gain an advantage over that enemy  the other is the tradition of
understanding military conflict as a zero-sum game. Combined  these ideas seem to imply that
war always gives rise to a second-mover advantage. This book questions the validity of this
presumption at the operational level of military planning. It provides a simple but rigorous
game-theoretic framework in order to analyse operational alternatives for a whole range of
typical conflicts Western military forces are facing  including the most recent ones such as
Anti-Access Area-Denial and supporting host nations' counterinsurgency campaigns.

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