The Operations Evaluation Group: A History of Naval Operations Analysis

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- List of Figures - Preface - Introduction -- Science in War -- Operations Research: The Discipline 1. The Group's Formative Years during World War II - The U-boat Menace - America's Early Antisubmarine Experience - Rallying America's Scientists - The Emergence of ASWORG - Sending Scientists to Naval Commands - Contact with the Army Air Forces - Relations with British Operations Research Groups - The Switch to Tenth Fleet - Operations Research Conducted by ASWORG - Expanding ASWORG's Horizons - Lessons Derived from the Wartime Experience 2. A Period of Consolidation and Growth - Transition to Peacetime - A Year of Recapitulation - Coming of Age - Analysis between the Wars 3. A Decade of Change for OEG: from Korea to a New - Strategic Balance - Eruption of the Korean Peninsula - The Navy's Role in Korea - OEG's Wartime Mobilization - Operations Analysis during the Korean War - Decennial Conference on Operations Research - The Operations Research Group - The Naval Warfare Analysis Group - Closing Out the Decade 4. OEG and the New Center for Naval Analyses - Establishment of CNA - A Period of Turbulence - Twentieth Anniversary Conference on Operations - Research - The Subsumed OEG - Crises in Cuba and the Dominican Republic - Early Analysis of the Vietnam War - Other Analysis in the Mid-19603 - Organizational Reshuffling within CNA - The Navy's Selection of a New CNA Sponsor 5. New Wartime Responsibilities and the Emergence of Today's OEG - The Navy's Involvement in Southeast Asia - OEG's Southeast Asia Combat Analysis Division - Analysis of Operations in Southeast Asia - Red-Side Operations Analysis Section - The Tactical Analysis Group - The Operations Evaluation Group Today 6. Notes 7. Bibliography 8. Index