The Area Bombing of Germany in World War II: An Operational Research Perspective

1997 ◽  
Vol 48 (7) ◽  
pp. 661 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kirby ◽  
R. Capey
1989 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. L. Sawyer ◽  
A. Charlesby ◽  
T. E. Easterfield ◽  
E. E. Treadwell

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-113
Author(s):  
Alexandru Hampu

AbstractOperations research(OR), also called decision optimization science, is the one that provides mathematical models meant to lead to finding the optimal variant in an economic, military, social, political, etc. type of activity. These are methods with a major potential, highlighted since the emergence of the models used in World War II actions and later in various other fields, especially in western countries. This paper aims to highlight the benefits of using OR techniques over time and especially to highlight its applicability. In this paper we summarize the presentation of the evolution and contributions of Operational Research in various fields until the ‘60s, a future paper will deal with the time frame 1960-2020.


1975 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
L. H. C. Tippett ◽  
C. H. Waddington

Author(s):  
Colin F. Baxter

At the start of World War II, Allied aircraft lacked an effective airborne weapon to use against U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. The importance of the Operational Research Section at RAF Coastal Command. Initially, the commander-in-chief of RAF Coastal Command and his civilian scientists were in agreement, but differences over weapon size almost led to the abandonment of the most promising aerial anti-U-boat weapon, the 250-pound Torpex-filled airborne depth charge. The Hedgehog antisubmarine weapon would also fire Torpex-filled projectiles.


1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 569
Author(s):  
Derman Christopherson ◽  
E. C. Baughan

1989 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. L. Sawyer ◽  
A. Charlesby ◽  
T. E. Easterfield ◽  
E. E. Treadwell

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thorsten Bonacker

AbstractSince the 1990s, transitional justice has become almost synonymous with the concern for the rights of victims. Compared with the Nuremberg Trials – in which victims did not even appear as witnesses – this is a major change and one for which an explanation will be sought here with recourse to neo-institutional research perspective. The core argument put forward in this article is that the change in transitional justice towards a stronger inclusion of victims could be explained as the result of the expansion of a rationalist world culture in which a model of victimhood is created and diffused worldwide, primarily through international organizations and NGOs. This notion of global victimhood developed only after World War II, following the global diffusion of human rights, the change in academic conceptions of traumatic experiences and the advocacy of International NGOs, so that the development of normative pressure on national transitional justice processes placed victims at the centre of processes dealing with the past.


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