
Reference List
Defense Strategy
1. Carter, A., and Perry, W., Preventive Defense, Brookings Institution Press (1999)
Risk Assessment
- Bernstein, Peter L., Against the Gods: The remarkable story of risk, John Wiley and Sons (1996).
There is a review of this book by Wayne Hughes in PHALANX, The Bulletin of Military Operations Research, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September) 1998.
Probability
- Feller, William, Introduction to Probability Theory, Vol. 1 (1950)..
This book contains very good examples of risk and threat assessments using real world data.
- Dawson, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker.
This book contains interesting examples of varying degrees of improbable events.
- Holt, Port, and Stone, Introduction to Probability Theory, Houghtin Mifflin, Boston (1971).
A basic book emphasizing probability theory calculations and consistency.
Game Theory
- Davis, M., Game Theory, A Nontechnical Introduction, Dover Publications, N.Y. (1983).
This book should be sampled first as an introduction to game theory. The next two are excellent for static and dynamic game theory.
- Owen, G., Game Theory, Academic Press, N.Y. (1995).
- Brams, S., Theory of Moves, Cambridge University Press (1994).
Theory of Moves is dynamic game theory where strategies change as the game proceeds.
Attrition Models
- Military Operations Research
Journal is a good reference for many articles on combat models and operations research.
- PHALANX, The Bulletin of Military Operations Research
has many articles on combat modeling and attrition.
Defense Studies
- Defense Analysis is an important journal that contains many articles of interest.
- Melese, F., and Palmore, J., "Ballistic Missile Defense: Protection or Placebo?", Defense Analysis, Vol. 16, No. 1 (April 2000), pp. 89-93.
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