the information.
Target accuracy for precision high altitude bombing requires
a complex feedback mechanism to control deployment (pre-GPS WW II).
* My dad:
*
* Norden bombsights revolutionized aerial bombing.
*
* They were so accurate we stopped putting explosives
* in the bombs and just aimed for people.
Communications, Command and Control. The above wasn't really the best
example of OR, but I did get to quote my dad again. ;-)
* "The Future of War - Power, Technology, and American World Dominance
in
* the 21st Century", by George & Meredith Friedman, 1996, ISBN
0-517-70403-X
*
* A discipline named operations research had begun to develop prior to
World
* War II that aspired to use quantitative methodologies to develop a
science
* of management. [snip]
*
* For the physicists and mathematicians of the Rand Cor****ation, the
* intuitions of common sense were utterly insufficient as a guide to
* management. Mathematical precision was necessary, and operations
* research promised to supply that precision. [snip]
*
* It had not jumped from the management of particular, limited areas of
* warfare to the structuring of entire campaigns and wars. Operations
* research had not penetrated to the very marrow of conventional
warfare,
* that is, not until an attempt was made in 1961 to revolutionize the
idea
* of war. This was done by an industrialist named Robert McNamara, who
had
* been president at Ford Motor Company.
Stafford Beer is a British cybernetician, and a 'research philosopher'.
In 1970, a Dr. Salvador Allende became president of Chile.
He was a democratically elected Marxist, with 37% of the vote.
Allende immediately embarked on a massive nationalization
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