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Cold War military systems science and the emergence of a nonlinear view of war in the US military

In: Cold war history, Volume 11, Issue 3, p. 421-440

Lawson, Sean

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Abstract

This paper examines the role of Cold War military systems science in the emergence of a nonlinear view of war within the US military. It argues that US military ambivalence towards systems science and seeds of a nonlinear worldview within the systems sciences help to explain the enlistment of nonlinear sciences like chaos and complexity theories. The turn to nonlinear science represents not a radical break with, but rather the evolution of a worldview whose roots can be traced to US military responses to Cold War exigencies. Adapted from the source document.

Subjects

United States of AmericaRadicalismCold WarAmbivalenceWarArmed Forces

Languages

English

Publisher

Taylor & Francis, Abingdon UK

ISSN: 1743-7962

DOI

10.1080/14682745.2010.494302

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