Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves
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 suggest
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Lucía Martínez Ordóñez
Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves
Contributions to Economics
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Lucía Martínez OrdóQnez
Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves
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Lucía Martínez OrdóQnez Faculty of Economics Ruhr University Bochum Bochum, Germany
ISSN 1431-1933 Contributions to Economics ISBN 978-3-319-56107-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56108-0
ISSN 2197-7178 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-56108-0 (eBook)
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To the memory of my dearest friend, Ilka Reichel, who I know would have been very happy to celebrate the finalization of this work with me.
Contents
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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2 Game Theory and the Decision-Making Process in Military Affairs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Game Theory: A Theory of Interdependent Decision .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Some Comments on Using Game Theory to Model Tactics . . . . . . . . . . .
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3 Strategies and Tactics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 A Brief History of Military Thought .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Doctrine and the Organizational Levels of Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Some War Strategi
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