TY - BOOK AU - Bousquet,Antoine J. TI - The scientific way of warfare: order and chaos on the battlefields of modernity T2 - Critical war studies SN - 9780231700788 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - U39 .B68 2009 U1 - 355.02.01/1 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Military art and science KW - Technological innovations KW - History KW - Methodology KW - Science KW - Military aspects KW - Technology KW - Philosophy KW - Military history, Modern KW - Military policy KW - Military research N1 - Series numbering from jacket; First published in the United Kingdom by Hurst Publishers, London, c2009; Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-258) and index; 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 ER -