Cares J.R. The fundamentals of salvo warfare

Naval Postgraduate School. — Monterey, California, 1990. — 71 p.This thesis presents a detailed study of the fundamentals of modern naval surface missile combat and, thought the vehicles of combat modeling, simulation, and quantitative analysis, describes a method of evaluating tactics. It establishes three basic laws of naval combat, test the theory that undergirds the laws against a data set, and provides a thorough analysis of the results. Keywords: Computers, Scenarios, Combat entropy, Naval tactics, Naval combat modeling.