Table of Contents: War by Numbers

Preface                                                                                                   ix

Acknowledgments                                                                                  xi

Abbreviations                                                                                         xiii

1. Understanding War                                                                        1

2. Force Ratios                                                                                   8
3. Attacker versus Defender                                                             14
4. Human Factors                                                                             16
5. Measuring Human Factors in Combat: Italy 1943-1944               19
6. Measuring Human Factors in Combat: Ardennes and Kursk       32
7. Measuring Human Factors in Combat: Modern Wars                  49
8. Outcome of Battles                                                                       60
9. Exchange Ratios                                                                          72
10. The Combat Value of Superior Situational Awareness                79
11. The Combat Value of Surprise                                                   121
12. The Nature of Lower Levels of Combat                                      146
13. The Effects of Dispersion on Combat                                         163
14. Advance Rates                                                                            174
15. Casualties                                                                                    181
16. Urban Legends                                                                            206
17. The Use of Case Studies                                                             265
18. Modeling Warfare                                                                        285
19. Validation of the TNDM                                                               299
20. Conclusions                                                                                 325

Appendix I: Dupuy’s Timeless Verities of Combat                                329

Appendix II: Dupuy’s Combat Advance Rate Verities                           335

Appendix III: Dupuy’s Combat Attrition Verities                                    339

Notes                                                                                                     345

Bibliography                                                                                           369

The book is 374 pages plus 14 pages of front matter.