Fitting Lanchester's square law to the Ardennes Campaign

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 942-946

  Hung, C Y ^a,c   Yang, G K ^b   Deng, P S ^c   Tang, T ^a   Lan, S P ^d   Chu, P ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^c CENTRAL POLICE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ardennes Campaign; Lanchester equation; Qualitative analysis

Indexed keywords

ARMOR; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; PERSONNEL;

ARDENNES CAMPAIGN; CASUALITIES; LANCHESTER EQUATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 22844434659     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601878     Document Type: Article

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