Slap,

Thanks for the link, more to read this weekend.

The UPS guy dropped off The Scientific Way of Warfare (Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity) by Antoine Bousquet (ISBN 978--0-231-70078-8) the other day. Dense reading, extensive footnotes, and I do not get the feeling that the author has spent time in the field, but it's pretty interesting so far (only on chapter 2).

Chapter 1: Technoscientific Regimes of Order in Warfare
Chapter 2: Mechanistic Warfare and the Clockwork Universe
Chapter 3: Thermodynamic Warfare and the Science of Energy
Chapter 4: Cybernetics and the Genesis of the Computer
Chapter 5: Cybernetic Warfare: Computers at War
Chapter 6: A New Informational Regime: From Chaos Theory to Complexity Science
Chapter 7: Towards Chaoplexic Warfare? Network-Centric Warfare

Regards,

Steve