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Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves

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Authors:
  1. Lucía Martínez Ordóñez

    1. Faculty of Economics, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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  • Applies game theory to military strategy
  • Explores whether there is a second-mover advantage in warfighting
  • Highlights operational alternatives for typical military conflicts in today's world

Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lucía Martínez Ordóñez
    Pages 1-2

  3. Game Theory and the Decision-Making Process in Military Affairs

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    Pages 3-10

  4. Strategies and Tactics

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    Pages 11-23

  5. Conflicts as Zero-Sum Games

    • Lucía Martínez Ordóñez
    Pages 25-36

  6. The Advantage of Moving First Versus a First-Mover Advantage

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    Pages 37-48

  7. Irregular Warfare

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    Pages 49-58

  8. Modelling Specific Aspects of COIN Operations: On the Possibility of a First Mover Advantage

    • Lucía Martínez Ordóñez
    Pages 59-79

  9. The War Against the Taliban: Tactical Operations and Strategic Moves

    • Lucía Martínez Ordóñez
    Pages 81-90

  10. Lessons Learned

    • Lucía Martínez Ordóñez
    Pages 91-92

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 93-101
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About this book

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.

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  • Faculty of Economics, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Lucía Martínez Ordóñez

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