Reply To: WW2 Air-to-Air Combat Exchange Ratios

[MartinR]

Don Glewwe wrote:

What’s the point?

Because it is interesting?

Relative loss ratios are an indication of relative combat effectiveness, amongst other things, although force ratios and loss ratios in air warfare behave very weird ways (and nothing like Lanchester predicted).

"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" - Helmuth von Moltke