The table indicates that it makes no difference whether _A_ engages the stronger or the weaker force first.
Column 3 shows that a force of 841, the part remaining after a force of 1,000 had annihilated a force of 500, would have 653 left after annihilating a second force of 500.

Taken in connection with columns 1 and 2, this indicates that it is easier to defeat two separated _equal_ forces than two separated _unequal_ forces of the same aggregate value; that the weakest way in which to divide a force is into _equal_ parts.

This fact is mathematically demonstrated by Mr.F.W.Lanchester in a recent book called "Air Craft in Warfare." TABLE III -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | |Col.

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