{"id":1039,"date":"2012-09-05T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2012-09-06T09:58:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T23:58:50","slug":"graph-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/graph-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader response: weapon lethality and battlefield risk"},"content":{"rendered":"
Following on from my post on the increasing lethality of weapon systems over time<\/a>, I got some interesting correspondence from Strategist<\/em> reader David Goyne. He provided me with some data taken from the work of the late T.N. Dupuy, who David accurately describes as \u2018a US Army officer, historian, operational analysis autodidact, and a fanatical advocate for his OA (operational analysis) method based on quantified historical data and assessment\u2019.<\/p>\n Relevant to the earlier post is Dupuy\u2019s observation of a counter-intuitive trend\u2014the increased lethality of weapon systems has been accompanied by a decline\u00a0<\/em>in the average daily casualty rates in major battles (see the graph below, source: redrawn from data in T.N. Dupuy, The Evolution of Weapons and Warfare<\/a>).<\/p>\n