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The author develops the solution to a simple problem of target selection in Lanchester combat against two enemy force types of which undergoes a linear-law attrition process. In addition to the Pontryagin maximum principle, the theory of singular extremals is required to solve this problem. The major contribution is to show how to synthesize the optimal target selection policies from the basic optimality conditions. This solution synthesis methodology is applicable to more general dynamic (tactical) allocation problems. For constant attrition-rate coefficients it is shown that whether or not changes can occur in target priorities depends solely on how survivors are valued and is independent of the type of attrition process. (Author)