Naval War College Review
Abstract
You are a tactical commander tasked with a mission to seek out and destroy one of the enemy’s premier capital ships in his home waters. You have two potential striking forces at your disposal: a world-class surface combatant of your own with a 99 percent probability of mission success (Ps = 0.99) or a squadron of eight in- dependently operating, missile-carrying small combatants, each with a chance of successfully completing the mission no better than a coin flip (Ps = 0.5). Do you go with the almost sure thing and choose to send in your large combatant?
Recommended Citation
Drennan, Jimmy
(2014)
"Strength in Numbers: The Remarkable Potential of (Really) Small Combatants,"
Naval War College Review: Vol. 67:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol67/iss1/10