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DTIC ADA225635: Rates of Advance in Historical Land Combat Operations

The U.S. Army Concepts Analysis Agency (CAA) is pleased to host and support our Secretary of the Army Research and Study Fellow for 1989-90, Dr. Robert L. Helmbold, who won this fellowship with an excellent proposal for research into the basic phenomena underlying advances by military forces in land combat operations. The basic approach used was to : (a) Obtain through extensive personal visits, correspondence, and phone calls all of the noteworthy documents with statistical data on rates of advance; (b) Compile, computerize, describe, critique, and comparatively review them, and then to; (c) use this data to examine a wide range of alternative hypotheses about rates of advance. This research paper presents his analysis of the available statistical data on rates of advance, and provides his latest thoughts on rates of advance in land combat operations. It is the third and last paper to appear under this fellowship (the first was 'A Survey of Past Work on Rates of Advance in Land Combat Operations,' CAA-RP-90-03, February 1990, and the second was 'A Compilation of Data on Rates of Advance in Land Combat Operations,' CAA-RP-90-04, February 1990). We are not aware of any other work th

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