Robustness of Preallocated Preferential Defense with Assumed Attack Size and Perfect Attacking and Defending Weapons

Abstract

The problem is to protect a set of t targets by n perfect interceptors against an attack by m perfect weapons. If the defender solves for an optimal preallocated preferential defense and associated game value assuming m1 attackers, and the attacker knows the assumption of the defender and utilized m2 attackers, he may be able to achieve significantly more damage than the defender assumed that there would be m2 attackers. The paper treats the robustness of preallocated preferential defense to assumptions about the size of the attack and presents results of an alternative approach.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA175088

Entities

People

  • A. J. Tai
  • James E. Falk
  • Jerome Bracken

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

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Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Defense Systems
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Game Theory
  • Guarantees
  • Military Tactics
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Procurement
  • Random Variables
  • Survival
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Virginia
  • Weapons

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  • Mathematics

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  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Operations Research