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Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves
Lucia Martinez Ordonez
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Hardback. Series: Contributions to Economics. Num Pages: biography. BIC Classification: JPWL; JW; KJT; LBBS; PBUD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to Economics
Number of Pages
101
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319561073
SKU
V9783319561073
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