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Operational research in the UK Ministry of Defence: an overview

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  • R A Forder

    (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Farnborough)

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The paper presents a survey of operational research (OR) as it is currently used in the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). After a short historical introduction summarising developments since 1945, it identifies the impact which the end of the Cold War has had on defence operational analysis (OA), as the discipline is generally called within MoD, in terms of the problems studied, the technical challenges presented and the techniques employed. The factors, both external and internal, that have led to the MoD maintaining and indeed expanding its OA activity against a background of falling defence budgets are discussed in the context of previously reported research on the survival and success of OR groups.

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  • R A Forder, 2004. "Operational research in the UK Ministry of Defence: an overview," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 55(4), pages 319-332, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:55:y:2004:i:4:d:10.1057_palgrave.jors.2601657
    DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601657
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    4. M W Kirby & M T Godwin, 2010. "The ‘invisible science’: operational research for the British Armed Forces after 1945," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 61(1), pages 68-81, January.
    5. Anthony Ween & Peter Dortmans & Nitin Thakur & Cayt Rowe, 2019. "Framing cyber warfare: an analyst’s perspective," The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, , vol. 16(3), pages 335-345, July.
    6. J Medhurst & I M Stanton & H Bird & A Berry, 2009. "The value of information to decision makers: an experimental approach using card-based decision gaming," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 60(6), pages 747-757, June.
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