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History of Operations Research in the United States Army - Volume 1: 1942-1962 (Paperback)
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History of Operations Research in the United States Army - Volume 1: 1942-1962 (Paperback)
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Operations research (OR) emerged during World War II as an
important means of assisting civilian and military leaders in
making scienti?cally sound improvements in the design and
performance of weapons and equipment. OR techniques were soon
extended to address questions of tactics and strategy during the
war and, after the war, to matters of high-level political and
economic policy. Until now, the story of why and how the U.S. Army
used OR has remained relatively obscure, surviving only in a few
scattered o?cial documents, in the memories of those who
participated, and in a number of notes and articles that have been
published about selected topics on military operations research.
However, none of those materials amounts to a comprehensive,
coherent history.In this, the ? rst of three planned volumes, Dr.
Charles R. Shrader has for the ?rst time drawn together the
scattered threads and woven them into a well-focused historical
narrative that describes the evolution of OR in the U.S. Army, from
its origins in World War II to the early 1960s. He has done an
admirable job of ferreting out the surviving evidence, shaping it
into an understandable narrative, and placing it within the context
of the overall developmentof American military institutions. Often
working with only sparse and incomplete materials, he has managed
to provide a comprehensive history of OR in the U.S. Army that
o?ers important insights into the natural tension between military
leaders and civilian scientists, the establishment and growth of
Army OR organizations, the use (and abuse) of OR techniques, and,
of course, the many important contributions that OR managers and
analysts have made to the growth and improvement of the Army since
1942. In this volume, Dr. Shrader carries the story up to 1962, the
beginning of the McNamara era and of America's long involvement in
Vietnam. The subsequent volumes will cover Army OR during the
McNamara era; its application in support of military operations in
Vietnam; and its significant contributions to the Army's
post-Vietnam recovery and reorganization, ultimately leading to a
victory (after only 100 hours of combat) in the first Gulf War in
1991 and the emergence of the U.S. Army as second to none in modern
weaponry, tactical prowess, and strategic vision.
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