Fitting Lanchester equations to the battles of Kursk and Ardennes

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-116

  Lucas, Thomas W ^a   Turkes, Turker ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Turkish Army Drug Factory   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attrition; Battle of Kursk; Combat models; Lanchester equations; Model validation

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY ENGINEERING; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

ATTRITION; BATTLE OF KURSK; COMBAT MODELS; LANCHESTER EQUATIONS; MODEL VALIDATION;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 1142268984     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.10101     Document Type: Article

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