The Operations Evaluation Group: A History of Naval Operations Analysis

- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
-- Science in War
-- Operations Research: The Discipline
1. The Group's Formative Years during World War II
- The U-boat Menace
- America's Early Antisubmarine Experience
- Rallying America's Scientists
- The Emergence of ASWORG
- Sending Scientists to Naval Commands
- Contact with the Army Air Forces
- Relations with British Operations Research Groups
- The Switch to Tenth Fleet
- Operations Research Conducted by ASWORG
- Expanding ASWORG's Horizons
- Lessons Derived from the Wartime Experience
2. A Period of Consolidation and Growth
- Transition to Peacetime
- A Year of Recapitulation
- Coming of Age
- Analysis between the Wars
3. A Decade of Change for OEG: from Korea to a New
- Strategic Balance
- Eruption of the Korean Peninsula
- The Navy's Role in Korea
- OEG's Wartime Mobilization
- Operations Analysis during the Korean War
- Decennial Conference on Operations Research
- The Operations Research Group
- The Naval Warfare Analysis Group
- Closing Out the Decade
4. OEG and the New Center for Naval Analyses
- Establishment of CNA
- A Period of Turbulence
- Twentieth Anniversary Conference on Operations
- Research
- The Subsumed OEG
- Crises in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
- Early Analysis of the Vietnam War
- Other Analysis in the Mid-19603
- Organizational Reshuffling within CNA
- The Navy's Selection of a New CNA Sponsor
5. New Wartime Responsibilities and the Emergence of Today's OEG
- The Navy's Involvement in Southeast Asia
- OEG's Southeast Asia Combat Analysis Division
- Analysis of Operations in Southeast Asia
- Red-Side Operations Analysis Section
- The Tactical Analysis Group
- The Operations Evaluation Group Today
6. Notes
7. Bibliography
8. Index