Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves

Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves

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Martínez Ordóñez, Lucía
Springer, Berlin
EAN: 9783319561073
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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.
EAN 9783319561073
ISBN 3319561073
Binding Hardback
Publisher Springer, Berlin
Publication date May 10, 2017
Pages 101
Language English
Dimensions 235 x 155
Country Switzerland
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Martinez Ordonez, Lucia
Illustrations XIII, 101 p. 21 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Edition 1st ed. 2017
Series Contributions to Economics