STATISTICS IN ARMY

The use of Statistics in the Army

The use of Statistics in the Army

Introduction

The importance of statistics in army is a work of research historical documentary that tells how statistics has helped and has been used for several processes relevant historical humanity. It discusses the more salient of the two great strategists Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, who considered it important to the usefulness of statistics, reflected even in his classic book of war, The Art of War and War, respectively. Statistics have contributed from its beginning in the study of the military arts and preparations for war. The importance of statistics has taken and how they contribute to the decision-making, conflict resolution and planning of strategies military. Many developed and developing nations take much consideration into the applicability by the statistical use in the military.

Discussion

Today's world is an information society demands the channel need not only information, but analyze and interpret for certain general and specific purposes, it is imperative to give the great importance of statistics has different areas of application, being one sector of security and defense. The overall potential of statistics to support the analysis to explore the potential military and statistical information on matters of security and defense, with a view to the construction of indicators and models that allow the management efficient data required by security agencies.

Since its inception the Statistical had as objective to describe the resources most important to those who told the people: population, land, wealth and information that are used primarily for military, commercial and political. Going in history, specifically in the military statistics, Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, two men left in their writings reflected the importance of statistics in military science. Sun Tzu described the importance of calculating everything related to war and explores possibilities or probabilities ...