Abstract The OR (Operations Research) in defense literature is reviewed. Various OR
methodologies are outlined, eg decision theory, game theory, mergers of differential …

ABSTRACT The OR (Operations Research) in defense literature is reviewed. Various OR
methodologies are outlined, eg decision theory, game theory, mergers of differential …

A production and conflict (P&C) model and a rent-seeking (RS) model are compared for one
group, two groups and K groups. Adding a new agent enlarges the pie in the P&C model …

Many authors have used dynamical systems to model asymmetric war. We explore this
approach more broadly, first returning to the prototypical models such as Richardson's arms …

Lanchester (1960) modeled combat situations between two opponents, where mutual
attrition occurs continuously in time, by a pair of simple ordinary (linear) differential …

Military air battle managers face several challenges when directing operations during
quickly evolving combat scenarios. These scenarios require rapid assignment decisions to …

A target is protected by the defender and attacked by an attacker launching sequential
attacks. For each attack, a contest intensity measures whether the agents' efforts have low or …

Purpose Among the many perspectives to analyze war, such as rational actor,
organizational process, governmental politics and ethics, the perspective that actually …

We present a new theory for the dynamic evolution of losses incurred in combat, which is
verified using available published data from WW1, WW2 and later conflicts. This new …

This article extends the previous research of consecutive attacks strategy by assuming that
an attacker observes the outcome of each attack imperfectly. With given probabilities it may …