The scientific way of warfare : order and chaos on the battlefields of modernity /
"Beginning with the Scientific Revolution and concluding With today's terrorist networks and revolution in military affairs, Antoine Bousquet advances a novel history of scientific methodology in the context of the battlefield. For centuries, scientific conceptual frameworks have been appl...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2009], ©2009
New York : c2009 New York : ©2009 New York : [2009] |
| Series: | Critical war studies ;
[v. 1] Critical war studies ; v. 1 |
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Table of Contents:
- Technoscientific regimes of order in warfare
- Mechanistic warfare and the clockwork universe
- Thermodynamic warfare and the science of energy
- Cybernetics and the genesis of the computer
- Cybernetic warfare: Computers at war
- A new informational regime: From chaos theory to complexity science
- Towards chaoplexic warfare? Network-centric warfare and the non-linear science
- Conclusions
- 1 Technoscientific Regimes of Order in Warfare
- 2. Mechanistic Warfare and the Clockwork Universe
- 3. Thermodynamic Warfare and the Science of Energy
- 4. Cybernetics and the Genesis of the Computer
- 5. Cybernetic Warfare: Computers at War
- 6. A New Informational Regime: From Chaos Theory to Complexity Science
- 7. Towards Chaoplexic Warfare? Network-Centric Warfare and the Non-Linear Sciences.
- 1 Technoscientific Regimes of Order in Warfare
- 2. Mechanistic Warfare and the Clockwork Universe
- 3. Thermodynamic Warfare and the Science of Energy
- 4. Cybernetics and the Genesis of the Computer
- 5. Cybernetic Warfare: Computers at War
- 6. A New Informational Regime: From Chaos Theory to Complexity Science
- 7. Towards Chaoplexic Warfare? Network-Centric Warfare and the Non-Linear Sciences.