Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves

• Main Author: Martínez Ordóñez, Lucía (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Contributions to Economics,
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; Politics and war.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Game theory.; International humanitarian law.; Economics.; Game Theory.; Military and Defence Studies.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; Terrorism and Political Violence.

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 gu...

Table of Contents:

• 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.