About Damn the Torpedoes!
This blog is a central sharing point for my personal research on mathematical combat models and historical data analysis, with a special focus on their application to the study of military history.
Alongside it, I maintain a GitHub repository, with publicly-available (under MIT license) Python implementations of all the models studied here.
Follow the link below to see the root of the repository:
Combat Models @ GitHub
About the author
My name is Alvaro Radigales, and I have a degree in Modern History and an MA in International Relations, Security, and Defence from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid – with a master’s thesis on naval doctrine in the Second World War. I also hold a diploma in Security and Defence Studies from the Cátedra Almirante Juan de Borbón, awarded by the Spanish CESEDEN in collaboration with UCM.
Currently, I am conducting research for my PhD on the application of Operational Research and data analysis techniques to the study of historical campaigns – a subject I chose as a happy marriage between my field of academic expertise and my passion for mathematics and programming.
It is always a pleasure to receive feedback on the articles in this blog, or the code hosted on my GitHub repository.
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