Robust preallocated preferential defense. Final report

Technical Report · Thu Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:6122067

Bracken, J; Brooks, P S; Falk, J E

The problem is to protect a set of T identical targets that may come under attack by A identical weapons. The targets are to be defended by D identical interceptors, which must be preallocated to defend selected targets. The attacker is aware of the number of interceptors, but is ignorant of their allocation. The size of the attack is chosen by the attacker from within a specified range. The robust strategies developed in this paper do not require the defender to assume an attack size. Rather, the defender chooses a strategy which is good over a wide range of attack sizes, though not necessarily best for any particular attack size. The attacker, knowing that the defender is adopting a robust strategy, chooses the optimal attack strategy for the number of weapons he chooses to expend. The expected number of survivors is a function of the robust defense strategy and optimal attack strategy against this robust defense.

• Research Organization: Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6122067
• Report Number(s): AD-A-159884/6/XAB; IDA-P-1816
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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