Uncertainty in Combat
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Authors
Hughes, Wayne P. Jr.
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Date of Issue
1994
Date
Summer 1994
Publisher
Military Operations Research Society (MORS)
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Abstract
From this uncertainty of all intelligence and suppositions, this continual interposition of chance, the actor in War constantly finds things different from this expectation: and this cannot fail to have an influence on his plans, or at least on the presumptions connected with these plans. If the influence is so great as to render the predetermined plan completely null, then, as a rule, a new one must be substituted in its place; but at the moment the necessary data are often wanting for this, because in the course of action circumstances press for immediate decision, and allow no time to look about for fresh data, often not enough for mature consideration.
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Article
Description
The following commentary is taken verbatim from a forthcoming monograph entitled "Combat Science: An Organizing Study."
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Operations Research (OR)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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13 p.
Citation
Hughes, Wayne P. "Commentary: 'Combat Science: An Organizing Study." Military Operations Research 1, no. 1 (Summer 1994): 45-57. DTIC ADA321335
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.