2013年9月27日 · "The reason the U.S. Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the U.S. Navy practices chaos on a daily basis." The quotation comes from an unnamed (and quite possibly apocryphal)...

When two or more strategic actors engage in warfare through their armed forces, the result is a social phenomenon that shows a degree of chaotic behavior—war. This is not a new assertion; only the vocabulary is—relatively—new. It was Clausewitz who first identified these as-pects of the nature of war.

My claim here is not that Clausewitz somehow anticipated today's "chaos theory," but that he perceived and articulated the nature of war as an energy-consuming phenomenon involving competing and interactive factors, attention to which reveals a …

prove that chaos exists in the operational level of war by applying mathematical tests to historical data. This paper provides an overview of chaos theory, followed

that Clausewitz conceived of war as essentially unpredictable and un-controllable derives from an exaggeration of what he said about those disruptive factors and a corresponding neglect of what he said about the cohesive influence of planning. Let us begin by outlining his advice on the planned construction of war, and then see whether that ...

2023年1月1日 · Until the West realigned itself and began a full-fledged war of chaos against Russia, using the entire spectrum of network-centric operations—a large-scale information campaign, economic sanctions, pinpoint terror, political pressure, and psychological campaigns designed to disorient and confuse the enemy.

War is nonlinear, but the parallels between war and complexity science, and between complexity science and Clausewitz, do not stop with nonlinearity. Clausewitz’s theory of war does not just allude to complexity; rather, complexity is at its very core.

6 天之前 · The Luftwaffe and the German submarine force during World War II, to take just two examples, were defeated not by a single blow, but by a technologically advanced, tactically and operationally ...

2025年1月7日 · War is chaos, and it is hell. But we can have some rules and regulations that we can follow…to minimize the impacts on noncombatants and on others that are engaged in the conflict.

1994年6月1日 · In certain cases, they observe a loss of stability of the solutions that they interpret as a transition to unpredictable chaos. Tagarev et al. (1994), using quantitative data and computational...