A Woven Web of Guesses

Abstract

A WOVEN WEB OF GUESSES -- Canto One: Network Centric Warfare and the Myth of the New Economy. -- Canto Two: Network Centric Warfare and the Myth of Inductivism. -- Canto Three: Network Centric Warfare and the Virtuous Revolution. INTRODUCTION -- Canto One: The NCW business analogy is highly problematic. Important and often adverse insight have been ignored. -- Canto Two: The NCW thesis perpetuates a discredited theory of knowledge and knowledge development, known as naive inductivism, that has long exerted powerful influence over the military. -- Canto Three: Exciting opportunities exist if we replace inductivism with critical rationalism. Unlike inductivism, critical rationalism is consistent with profound insights into the nature of logic, information, knowledge and reasoning. In short, the prerequisite to a revolution in military affairs is a revolution in the way we think about thinking.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA467454

Entities

People

  • Darryn J. Reid
  • Ralph E. Giffin

Organizations

  • Department of National Defence

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Data Fusion
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Operations
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Neurobehavioral Manifestations
  • Observation
  • Reasoning
  • Situational Awareness
  • Standards
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Geodesy
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design