History of operations research in the United States Army / Charles R. Shrader.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Shrader, Charles R.

Contributor:

United States. Department of the Army

Series:

CMH pub ; 70-102-1.

CMH pub ; 70-105-1.

CMH pub ; 70-110-1.

CMH pub ; 70-102-1

CMH pub ; 70-105-1

CMH pub ; 70-110-1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army--History.

United States.

United States. Army.

Military art and science--Research--United States--History.

Military art and science.

Operations research--United States--History.

Operations research.

Military art and science--Research.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 volumes) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Operations Research, U.S. Army, 2006-2009.

Summary:

Operations research (OR) emerged during World War II as an important means of assisting civilian and military leaders in making scientifically 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 official 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 first of three planned volumes, Dr. Charles R. Shrader has for the first 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 development of 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 offers 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.

Contents:

v. 1. 1942-62

v. 2. 1961-1973

v. 3. 1973-1995.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Online resource, PDF version; title from PDF title page (CMH, viewed February 13, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version: Shrader, Charles R. History of operations research in the United States Army

Online version: Shrader, Charles R. History of operations research in the United States Army.

OCLC:

227937101