ABSTRACT
At an annual salary of £1,200, Professor P.M.S.Blackett was appointed the Admiralty’s Chief Adviser on Operational Research (CAOR) in December 1941, having migrated from Coastal Command’s Operational Research Section (ORS).2 Blackett immediately set about gathering a team of eminent scientists in the Admiralty to tackle the task which, as he saw it, was ‘the study of past operations with the object of extracting the maximum useful lessons to guide planning of future operations’.
