The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity

by Antoine J. Bousquet

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019764967X
• ISBN13: 9780197649671
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"