Editing Markov chain (section)

===Conflict and combat===
In 1971 a [[Naval Postgraduate School]] Master's thesis proposed to model a variety of combat between adversaries as a Markov chain "with states reflecting the control, maneuver, target acquisition, and target destruction actions of a weapons system" and discussed the parallels between the resulting Markov chain and [[Lanchester's laws]].<ref name="dtic1">{{cite news |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0736113 |title=A Finite Markov Chain Model of the Combat Process |work=Naval Postgraduate School |date=September 1971 |last1=Reese |first1=Thomas Fred }}</ref>

In 1975 Duncan and Siverson remarked that Markov chains could be used to model conflict between state actors, and thought that their analysis would help understand "the behavior of social and political organizations in situations of conflict."<ref name="duncan75">{{cite journal |doi=10.2307/2600315|jstor=2600315 |title=Markov Chain Models for Conflict Analysis: Results from Sino-Indian Relations, 1959-1964 |last1=Duncan |first1=George T. |last2=Siverson |first2=Randolph M. |journal=International Studies Quarterly |date=1975 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=344–374 }}</ref>