The Effect of Quantity. Before returning to its application to Iraq, let me illustrate Lanchester's Law with a simplified conflict between two armies, denoted army QN (for quantity) and army QL ...

Much was expected of John Lanchester’s 2012 novel Capital, which explored the London property bubble through the residents of Pepys Road, a gentrified Clapham street.Owing to Lanchester’s ...

Joining the many books explaining the collapse is “I.O.U.,” in which John Lanchester suggests that Western capitalism has lost its checks and balances.

Lanchester's laws were later implemented successfully by the Allied Forces in World War II. After World War II, renowned quality expert Edward Deming applied the same laws to operations research.