OR Forum—British Operational Research in World War II

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Description: This article offers an overview of British operational research activities during World War II, and is the second in a series on the early history of operations research. The first (Operations Research 35, 143–152) traced the scattered beginnings from World War I up to the activities in Britain before and during the early months of World War II.
Joseph F. McCloskey
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