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[–] 18657918? ago 

Whenever you want to commit war you have a certain finite amount of spending power for man and resources. To be effective you can't be emotional, your aim should be to maximize at any given point the optimization problem of staying competitive in the warfare.

There's a whole line of mathematics derived from differential equations based on this here's an explanation of Lancaster Attrition by the Naval Postgrad School.