Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves

Lucía Martínez Ordóñez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 101 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-56107-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Introduction.- Game Theory and the Decision-Making Process in Military Affairs.- Strategies and Tactics.- Conflicts as Zero-Sum Games.- The Advantage of Moving First Versus a First-Mover Advantage.- Irregular Warfare.- Modelling Specific Aspects of COIN Operations: On the Possiblity of a First Mover Advantage.- The War Against the Taliban: Tactical Operations and Strategic Moves.- Lessons Learned.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	Contributions to Economics
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 101 p. 21 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	344 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Wahrscheinlichkeit / Kombinatorik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	Asymmetric conflicts • COIN operations • Decision Making • Defense economics • Defense studies • Economics • Economics and finance • Game Theory • Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences • International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Confl • Irregular warfare • Management Decision Making • military affairs • Military and Defence Studies • Military operations • Network-Centric Warfare • Operational Research • Operations Research/Decision Theory • Public international law: humanitarian law • Strategic moves • Tactical operations • Taliban • Terrorism and Political Violence • Terrorism, armed struggle • Warfare & defence • Warfare & defence • Warfighting • War on Terror
ISBN-10	3-319-56107-3 / 3319561073
ISBN-13	978-3-319-56107-3 / 9783319561073
Zustand	Neuware