David Rowland (2)
Autor de The Stress of Battle: Quantifying Human Performance in Combat
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Obras de David Rowland
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- male
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 17
- Popularidad
- #654,391
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 26
This particular work looks at a combination of field analysis experiments in the 1980s using lasers, well documented WW2 engagements and a handful of battles from other wars. Almost every page in it is packed with evidence or explanations of the complex methodology used to ensure that you could get controlled results from an otherwise messy and chaotic environment. If you are playing or designing wargames then this is one of the books that you absolutely must have on your book shelves (and have read too).
When I was reading the book I was often underlining or marking sections with post-it flags. In particular I drew the following interesting snippets from the book:
MG equivalents for casualty causing are: 9 rifles = 1 MG; 1 medium mortar (81mm) = 3 MG;
This is just a taster of what the book contains. Really worth reading. Not only that it is fantastically well illustrated with loads of graphs, diagrams and pictures from the field exercises to illustrate the points in the text.… (más)