War Cannot Be Calculated

Svend Bergstein ()
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Svend Bergstein: Former Minster for Science and Technology, Lieutenant Colonel (ret.)

A chapter in Mathematics and War, 2003, pp 183-215 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract War is throughout influenced by policy, but who can predict political interventions? War is about breaking soldiers’ will to fight, but who can predict when it happens? In war, for a number of reasons, small deviations and misunderstandings occur, and they start avalanches of misfortune which only the iron will of a commander can attenuate, but never stop completely. It is called friction. For all these reasons war cannot be calculated.

Keywords: Social Coherence; Armed Force; Social Technology; Military Power; Weapon System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8093-0_10

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