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Originally Posted by Sgian Dubh
This may be an ill-thought out request, but is there any place where some or all of these equations and formulas are available outside of the books?
Or perhaps the equations are useless out of contex?
If there was a place to start.... Just like there are places to start on Aeronautical navigation on the web to see if you 'take' to it.
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I know what you're saying, and from what I've seen these things don't really exist. OR seems to be the sort of thing people just sort of "fall into." It's sort of like asking "are there any good online sites that explain Bose versus Fermi statistics?" The content is really in the calculations. In order to get into it, you really need to know the details. Web sites rarely discuss these kinds of things.
James Dunnigan, a very experienced veteran of both civilian and military wargaming, who does The Strategy Page, wrote a book about operations research kinds of topics that deals with mostly land combat (his roots as an Army OR guy show). It's called "The Complete Wargames Handbook"
http://www.hyw.com/Books/WargamesHandbook/Contents.htm
Even then, it doesn't really get into the details of statistics and what not.
And yes, in the absense of data, they are useless. That's why they're unclassified. None the less, we as wargamers can go into the DB editor, and read the relevent game numbers out, plug them into our calculations and develop our own plans, tactics, proceedures, etc. based on the mathematics of search, firing, etc.
Ideally (and honestly, this has yet to play out for me in game play, since I've been trying to apply a lot of this stuff, I've actually gotten worse) it would give you improved performance in the long run.