This guide to the vulnerability and lethality of ground combat systems offers military weapons designers and engineers a full assessment of tactical utility, target response, damage mechanisms and personnel dysfunction. Deitz (technical director, U.S. Army Material Systems Analysis Activity, retired), Reed (systems engineering, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory), Klopcic (physics and mathematics, Kenyon College) and Walbert (chief scientist, SURVICE Engineering) discuss mission effectiveness, fault trees, degraded states and networked systems and show how V/L modeling and simulation are used to evaluate system acquisition, life cycle and vulnerability reduction. Additional topics include a study of penetrating fragments and behind-armor debris. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)