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War Quants was created by a group of Operations Research analysts who feel that quantitative analysis belongs at the forefront of national security discussions. However, experience showed that this angle is often ignored or marginalized. The problem is frequently two-fold. First, analysts who convince themselves of big ideas with numbers and models frequently fail at communicating these big ideas in ways that are widely accessible – or worse, they feel they should not have to. But one does not often hear, “The calculator is mightier than the sword.” Second, on the other end, analysts and other practitioners who do not have a deep quantitative background may shy away from reading deeply technical pieces and thus miss out on the insight that can be gained from the work.

War Quants bridges that gap. We aim to provide a medium for quantitative defense thinkers and analysts to share their work with the broader national security community of interest. When writing for War Quants you should not shy away from discussing math in public, but it must be accessible to a broader audience. Readers should know that sufficient rigor has gone into the analysis without having to hear the nitty-gritty details of your 100-parameter nearly-orthogonal Latin-hypercube design of experiments.

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