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The Scientific Way of Warfare - Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (Paperback, New edition)
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The Scientific Way of Warfare - Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Critical War Studies
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Loot Price R546
Discovery Miles 5 460
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Bousquet's landmark book examines the impact of key technologies
and scientific ideas on the theory and practice of warfare and the
handling of the perennial tension between order and chaos on the
battlefield. Spanning the entire modern era, from the Scientific
Revolution to the present, it offers a systematic account of modern
warfare as the constitution of increasingly complex assemblages of
bodies and machines whose integration rests upon a military
assimilation of scientific thought. Reflecting the pervasive
influence of scientific conceptual frameworks upon warfare, modern
armies have been successively organised by reference to the
paradigmatic technologies of the clock, engine, computer, and
network. Conversely, major scientific developments and
technological breakthroughs have become intertwined with the
experience of war, especially since the Second World War's
unprecedented mobilisation of scientific rationality and technical
expertise. This increasingly tight symbiosis between science,
technology, and war is at the heart of both the tremendous powers
and enduring pathologies displayed by the contemporary military
machine. In this new and revised edition, Bousquet extends the
analysis to encompass the latest developments in the scientific way
of warfare in the midst of renewed great power competition and a
wave of technological innovation in artificial intelligence and
robotics.
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