WORLD WAR II BATTLES RECONSIDERED: Game Theory and Decision Science Perspectives on Gazala, El Alamein, Falaise and Arnhem

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Written by a former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory, presents original insights on the strategies and tactics undertaken in four major battles of the Second World War. Details the fighting at Gazala in Libya in the late spring of 1942 and compares it to the British reversal of that disaster later that year at El Alamein in Egypt. Credits that to heeding the millennia-old military priority of command unity, which has been analyzed and re-endorsed by modern decision science. Also looks at the Allied setback at Arnhem in the Netherlands, calling into question the value of battlefield surprise. These decisions, approached from an expert perspective on game theory and presented with high-quality maps, are presented in this pioneering application of decision science to the battles of World War II. Contains maps, notes, bibliography, and index.