Author： Lawson Sean
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 1468-2745
Source： Cold War History, Vol.11, Iss.3, 2011-08, pp. : 421-440
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Abstract
This paper examines the role of Cold War military systems science in the emergence of a nonlinear view of war within the US military. It argues that US military ambivalence towards systems science and seeds of a nonlinear worldview within the systems sciences help to explain the enlistment of nonlinear sciences like chaos and complexity theories. The turn to nonlinear science represents not a radical break with, but rather the evolution of a worldview whose roots can be traced to US military responses to Cold War exigencies.
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