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The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity
January, 2009
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70078-8
$35.00
"Antoine J. Bousquet does for the history of science as military metaphor what Marc Buchanan did for complexity science and networks in Nexus: The Groundbreaking Science of Networks. Bousquet translates a series of profound scientific developments into an accessible and engaging narrative of technology as artifact and metaphor. He writes with great eloquence and texture, while simultaneously treating complex theoretical issues with the light touch that will ensure a large audience." — Michael Innes, Syracuse University
"Antoine J. Bousquet offers us an intellectual feast to which we are all invited, an intellectual frontier we are free to explore. The range of this work is truly impressive, yet it never obscures the unifying theme: the quest through the centuries for order on the battlefield. In Iraq and in Afghanistan, the West has found such order more elusive than ever, yet the quest has never been more urgent." — Christopher Coker, professor of international relations, London School of Economics