Independent Review/Reassessment of Anomalous Data. Volume 1
Abstract
An independent review/reassessment of 61 battles in 8 campaigns of World War II and the Arab-Israeli Wars of 1967 and 1973 was conducted. This work will provide the U.S. Army's concepts Analysis Agency (CAA) with a factual basis for determining the extent to which certain anomalies in the data contained in CAA Study Report CAA-SR-84-6, 'Analysis of Factors That Have Influenced Outcomes of Battles and Wars' are attributable to actual changes in combat dynamics, or whether they are more likely due to flaws in the database. Since the inclusion of 'non-bloody' losses (i.e., prisoners of war and missing in action) in the HERO database's loss figures might contribute to these anomalies, LFW was asked to provide estimates of the numbers actually killed or wounded in action, wherever the available information was judged sufficient to make reasonably reliable estimates of those bloody losses. For the battles on the Eastern Front, only a few official German records were applicable, but the LFW Team developed a completely new set of secondary sources considered to be far more reliable than those cited in the HERO study.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 22, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA195381
Entities
People
- Charles B. Macdonald
- George H. Russell
- Graham M. Sibbles
- William M. Glasgow Jr.