Edmund L. DuBois graduated from the University of Illinois in 1941 with a bachelor of science degree, from the University of Chicago in 1948 with a master of science, and from the Army War College in 1962. He served in the Regular Army from 1941 to 1971, with combat tours in the Pacific during World War II. His service included four command assignments and staff duty with the Department of the Army, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, and other organizations. After retiring from the Army with the rank of brigadier general, he worked for eight years as a research analyst and consultant with SRI International, and briefly for Ketron. DuBois has also been involved with tourism planning studies. His is now fully retired and lives in Sonoma, California.

Wayne P. Hughes, Jr. A graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy and Naval Postgraduate School, Hughes held three commands during his thirty-year career, and served three shipboard tours in the Korean and Vietnamese Conflicts. Since retirement for the past twenty years he has been on the Operations Research faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School, specializing in naval combat and joint campaign analysis. On leave of absence he served at the Army’s Concepts Analysis Agency. He is author of Fleet Tactics: Theory and Practice, Military Modeling For Decision Making, and articles on naval tactics in the current Encyclopedia Britannica and naval logistics in the International Military and Defense Encyclopedia. Hughes is Past President, Fellow, and Wanner Award winner of the Military Operations Research Society, Distinguished Author of the U. S. Naval Institute, and Defence Technology Distinguished Fellow of the Republic of Singapore.

Lawrence J. Low. A graduate of the Stevens Institute of Technology with the degree of Mechanical Engineer, Low saw eight years of active naval service during World War II and the Korean Conflict. He spent more than a decade in flight dynamics research for aircraft and guided missiles. For eleven years he served as director of the Naval Warfare Research Center at SRI International that performed systems analyses for the Office of Naval Research and Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps. He organized, chaired, and edited the Proceedings of the Leesburg Conference of 1977 on gaming and simulation. For the past thirty-five years Low has been involved with research directed towards the improvement of combat analyses and war gaming techniques. He is retired and lives in Woodside, California.

All three co-authors have been associated with The Military Conflict Institute for nearly twenty years and participated in lengthy six-week TMCI retreats that established the foundation of this exposition.