It concerns Lanchester's Square Law, which was formulated during World War I and has been taught in the military ever since. Used to model conflicts from ancient times to the Battle of Trafalgar ...

The second, Lanchester’s Square Law, is used for modern militaries that are concentrating their forces and targeting specific enemies. For this case, the casualty rate scales with the number of ...

One of Lanchester’s observations was that if a military force outnumbers its opposition, its effective firepower was equivalent to the square of the total number of units in the larger force.