Talk:Lanchester's laws

message: Does anyone know whether Lanchester was influenced by Lotka and Volterra's 1910 work?  It is not cited in his 1916 article. Colin Rowat (talk) 11:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Relationship to other models?

message: I don't think the article is quite right about application to modern warfare: the square law applies only to direct fire weapons engaging each other, and not to units or larger formations, nor to area fire weapons whose effectiveness depends on the density of targets in the target area. Specifically, it does not apply to field artillery (the example given in the article) except when engaged in targeted counter-battery fire. 
I'll have a go at revising the article. Cyclopaedic (talk) 18:00, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Still not a great article, though. Perhaps an example? Not sure if that's encyclopaedic. Cyclopaedic (talk) 09:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A few examples would be interesting and illuminating. If you have roughly three types of units (close combat, distance, aimed distance) you have six possible combinations... Hm. Do we have any data on the actual factors as measured in the field? Shinobu (talk) 08:54, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Direct fire only

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:41, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: I'm puzzled by the "copied with permission" notice:  this article has been changed significantly over time, by multiple authors, and the IP that added the notice seems to have in fact added very little.  Is it (still, or ever) an accurate description?  And if so, can we factor it to make it less so?  If it's simply being paraphrased in places, it seems to me to be unnecessary to have anything more than an acknowledgement by way of a reference.  If there is wholesale copying, this makes it unsatisfactory as regards the GFDL requirement.  Alai (talk) 16:42, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "copied, with permission"? 

message: The article states that as a compromise between the linear and
square laws, "often a factor of 1.5 is used".  An exponent of
1.5 might be a suitable compromise between linear and square laws,
depending on the situation, but a factor of 1.5 makes no sense.
Rather than changing this based on a conjecture, perhaps someone can
check sources to see what formulas are actually used.  And, while
they're at it, perhaps they can substitute something more specific
for that vague word "often".
--208.76.104.133 (talk) 15:54, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: There seem to be several typos, including in the graph. 128.198.221.29 (talk) 15:59, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: The lead describes this as a model of a predator-prey relationship.  That characterization is not supported by any text in the body, nor by any references.  This is good, because it's facially ridiculous (the equations are of symmetric form, can only describe decreasing functions of time, etc.).  I propose removing this and replacing it with something not wrong. --JBL (talk) 23:28, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, this has been in the article since 2006. --JBL (talk) 23:33, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

text: I have boldly removed the offending phrase. --JBL (talk) 23:35, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Predator-prey