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Impact of Battle Damage on Combat Performance by Jon Yong is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document provides a 3-sentence summary of a 94-page paper on the relationship between battle damage and unit combat performance. The paper reviews battles from World War I to the 1982 Falklands campaign to investigate the assumption that a military unit becomes ineffective after losing a set percentage of its strength. The effect of heavy battle damage on units was found to be variable and unpredictable. While there is a relationship between losses and willingness to fight, it defies precise definition

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Jon Yong

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