 They aim at fixed values; but in war everything is uncertain, and calculations have to be made with variable quantities. They direct the inquiry exclusively toward physical quantities, whereas all military action is intertwined with psychological forces...  Alliance and defense capabilities in Europe: hearings before the ... - Page 168by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense - 1988 - 388 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michael I. Handel - Arms transfers - 1989 - 506 pages
...realm of truth; synthetically, in the rules and regulations they offer, they are absolutely useless. They aim at fixed values; but in war everything is...intertwined with psychological forces and effects. They consider only unilateral action, whereas war consists of a continuous interaction of opposites.24... | |
 | David Stevens, John Reeve - History - 2003 - 387 pages
...realm of truth; synthetically, in the rules and regulations they offer, they are absolutely useless. They aim at fixed values; but in war everything is...intertwined with psychological forces and effects. They consider only unilateral action, whereas war consists of a continuous interaction of opposites.... | |
 | Azar Gat - Military art and science - 2001 - 916 pages
...regarded their attitude as dogmatic and divorced from reality, and demanded an all-encompassing theory. 'They aim at fixed values; but in war everything is uncertain, and caiculations have to be made with variable quantities.'50 It is illuminating to compare this with the... | |
 | Everett C. Dolman - History - 2005 - 254 pages
...principles of war in his published work, fearing they would too easily degenerate into rules for action: 'They aim at fixed values, but in war everything is...uncertain, and calculations have to be made with variable quantities.'2 The spasm of violence that is incorporated in war is overcome only by genius in the commander,... | |
 | Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich - History - 2006 - 266 pages
...synthetically, in the rules and regulations they offer, they are absolutely useless. They aim at fixed value; but in war everything is uncertain, and calculations...action is intertwined with psychological forces and effects.16 Examples unfortunately are legion, but for one representative concept, the reader might... | |
 | National security - 2002 - 409 pages
...the result is that theories become] absolutely useless... in the rules and regulations they offer... they aim at fixed values, but in war everything is...uncertain, and calculations have to be made with variable quantities.10 Effects-Based Operations. Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in... | |
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