TY - BOOK AU - Bousquet,Antoine TI - The scientific way of warfare: order and chaos on the battlefields of modernity SN - 019764967X PY - 2022/// CY - New York, NY PB - OUP KW - military strategy KW - methodology KW - history KW - military research KW - military history KW - philosophy KW - emerging technologies KW - military art and science KW - technological innovations N1 - SIP2212; Technoscientific regimes of order in warfare -- Mechanistic warfare -- Thermodynamic warfare -- Cybernetics and the informational paradigm -- Cybernetic warfare-- The order of chaoplexity -- Chaoplexic warfare -- Conclusions N2 - 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 ER -