Reliability Study of Military Operations: Methods and Applications

This chapter offers a reliability study of several speculative military scenarios and some general results concerning well-known reliability systems. More specifically, four different consecutive type systems are investigated and treated as operational tactics of defensive or offensive military schemes. Structural properties of these scenarios, such as the signature vector or the reliability function, are studied in details and several conclusions concerning the effectiveness of the aforementioned military operations are deduced. In addition, some recursive relations for the calculation of the signature coordinates of well-known reliability structures are also proved. Finally, for illustrative purposes some figures are also displayed in order to depict the operation rules of the reliability structures that are under investigation.

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