| Article ID: | iaor20021817 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 48 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 259 |
| End Page Number: | 269 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2001 |
| Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
| Authors: | David Israel |
This work highlights the problem in military operations of setting safety limits for friendly forces, neutral forces, or civilians, to avoid sustaining unnecessary casualties both in wartime and in training. We present and investigate an analytic model which both enables the quantitative understanding of the inherent problems, and furnishes a reasonably flexible tool in the hands of the analyst. Characteristic numerical results are displayed and analyzed: They show in particular that prevailing crude approximations are inadequate.