Personnel Attrition Rates in Historical Land Combat Operations. Some Empirical Relations among Force Sizes, Battle Durations.

Abstract

This paper uses historical data to develop some of the empirical relationships connecting the number of total battle casualties (TBC) to force sizes and battle durations. Here TBC is defined to be the sum of the killed in action (KIA), wounded in action (WIA), and captured or missing in action (CMIA). Because these relations may be affected by battle date, long-term trends with respect to battle date are also included.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA298124

Entities

People

  • Robert L. Helmbold

Organizations

  • Center for Army Analysis

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attrition
  • Civil War
  • Combat Forces
  • Combat Operations
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Differential Equations
  • Health Services
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Operations Research
  • Regression Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation
  • War Colleges
  • War Games
  • Warfare

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Trauma or Military Medicine