Hamilton Thomas. A simple game-theoretic approach to suppression of enemy defenses and other time critical target analyses

Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corp., 2004. — 65 p.The effectiveness of attacks on time critical targets (suppression enemy air defenses, interdiction, and theater ballistic missile missions) often depends on decisions made by the adversary. Game theory is a way to study likely changes in enemy behavior resulting from various attack capabilities and goals. Engagement-level combat is treated as a two-player game in which each player is free to choose its strategy. The response an intelligent opponent is likely to make a differing level of threat capability is critical to understanding and measuring the capability necessary to induce the enemy to follow a preferred course of action.