Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC Paris, n° 866The paper suggests that military history should be subjected to modelling based on the mathematical theories of rational choice, and especially the theory of games. This suggestion primarily concerns military events that have already been reported in narratives focusing on the agents' instrumental rationality, such as Clausewitz's narrative of the Waterloo campaign. By selecting relevant facts and hypotheses relative to this campaign and Napoléon's final collapse, we will investigate the decision he made on 17 June 1815 to detach part of his army against the Prussians he had defeated on the day before at Ligny. Military historians disagree on the rational sense of this crucial decision, but gam...
Playing in Ideology: Counterfactual Military History, Games and Understanding War! "All wars are th...
Since its beginning, military science has attempted to identify the formulas, rules and invariable a...
The theorist and strategist Carl von Clausewitz developed core theoretical concepts on war, includin...
International audienceThe paper suggests that military history, and more precisely campaign narrativ...
The paper has a twofold aim. On the one hand, it provides what appears to be the first game-theoreti...
The paper has a twofold aim. On the one hand, it provides what appears to be the first game-theoreti...
Game theory has existed in the fields of mathematics and economics for over 60 years. This thesis as...
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC 912The interpretations of the Waterloo campaign are numerous, dive...
The purpose of this paper is to go beyond the usual scheme associated with Clausewitz, which narrow...
THE APPLICATION OF A DECISION-MAKING MODEL TO HISTORICAL DATA, by W.E. SARIS and I.N. SARIS-GALLHOFE...
Carl von Clausewitz (1780 –1831) stands out from other writers of military classics because rather t...
Revue Economique en l’honneur de Philippe MonginInternational audienceWe build up a general purpose ...
In his Collège de France lectures of 1975–6, translated and published in Great Britain in 2003 as So...
Carl von Clausewitz’s On War has been heralded as one of the most influential theories of war. It ha...
Playing in Ideology: Counterfactual Military History, Games and Understanding War! "All wars are th...
Since its beginning, military science has attempted to identify the formulas, rules and invariable a...
The theorist and strategist Carl von Clausewitz developed core theoretical concepts on war, includin...
International audienceThe paper suggests that military history, and more precisely campaign narrativ...
The paper has a twofold aim. On the one hand, it provides what appears to be the first game-theoreti...
The paper has a twofold aim. On the one hand, it provides what appears to be the first game-theoreti...
Game theory has existed in the fields of mathematics and economics for over 60 years. This thesis as...
Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC 912The interpretations of the Waterloo campaign are numerous, dive...
The purpose of this paper is to go beyond the usual scheme associated with Clausewitz, which narrow...
THE APPLICATION OF A DECISION-MAKING MODEL TO HISTORICAL DATA, by W.E. SARIS and I.N. SARIS-GALLHOFE...
Carl von Clausewitz (1780 –1831) stands out from other writers of military classics because rather t...
Revue Economique en l’honneur de Philippe MonginInternational audienceWe build up a general purpose ...
In his Collège de France lectures of 1975–6, translated and published in Great Britain in 2003 as So...
Carl von Clausewitz’s On War has been heralded as one of the most influential theories of war. It ha...
Playing in Ideology: Counterfactual Military History, Games and Understanding War! "All wars are th...
Since its beginning, military science has attempted to identify the formulas, rules and invariable a...
The theorist and strategist Carl von Clausewitz developed core theoretical concepts on war, includin...