military hierarchy, job stress and mental health in peacetime

the task of optimally assigning military ordinance to enemy targets, often termed weapon target allocation (wta) problem, has become a major focus of modern military thought where a cost effective allocation is required without degrading the required kill performance. the paper presents three main weapon allocation techniques namely uniform weapon allocation, first-in-first weapon allocation and shoot-look-shoot weapon allocation. a probabilistic approach is used for the analysis of these techniques. the paper also presents the method for computation of an individual weapon system effectiveness and compound multi-layered weapon system effectiveness operating in centralized mode.