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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Osinga, Frans P.B. Science, strategy and war. London ; New York : Routledge, 2007 (OCoLC)609215715 |
Named Person: | John Boyd; John Boyd; John (Soldat) Boyd |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frans P B Osinga |
ISBN: | 0415371031 9780415371032 0203088867 9780203088869 9780415459525 0415459524 |
OCLC Number: | 67773991 |
Description: | x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- The seeds of a theory and the fertile soil -- Science : Boyd's fountain -- Completing the shift -- Core arguments -- Exploration and refinement -- Completing the loop. |
Series Title: | Cass series--strategy and history, 18. |
Responsibility: | Frans P.B. Osinga. |
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If you have any interest in war, this is a book your library cannot do without. Just as America cannot do without John Boyd's ideas, although our military has not yet figured that out.William Lind, Military.comOsinga provides lucid expositions of the various elements that Boyd synthesized into some truly original formulations and ways of thinking about strategy.Lawrence Freedman, Foreign AffairsOsinga's book should be read by military professionals and academics alike, but also by anyone interested in the social and cultural impacts of science in general, and chaos and complexity theories in particular. Science, Strategy and War will and should remain required reading for years to come.Sean Lawson, Emergence Read more...

