International Affairs

, volume 84 , issue 5 , pages 915-929

Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization

Antoine Bousquet ¹

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Lecturer in International Relations at Birkbeck, University of London |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2008-09-01

Oxford University Press

International Affairs

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SJR: 1.667

CiteScore: 6.9

Impact factor: 4.0

ISSN: 00205850, 14682346, 01309641

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2008.00746.x

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Abstract

Scientific methods and concepts have been exerting a powerful influence on the exercising of armed force since the Scientific Revolution and the dawn of the modern era. In association with the respective technologies of the clock, engine and computer, the scientific theories of mechanism, thermodynamics, and cybernetics have all in turn been recruited to shape distinct approaches to the challenges of imposing order on the chaos of the battlefield. Today, it is on the basis of the new sciences of chaos and complexity that the latest regime of the scientific way of warfare is being erected. Chaoplexic warfare draws on the study of nonlinear phenomena of self-organization to propose a radical decentralization of armed forces through the adoption of the network form. For all its present flaws, network-centric warfare and its operational concepts of self-synchronization and swarming mark an important step on the path to chaoplexic warfare.

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Bousquet A. Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization // International Affairs. 2008. Vol. 84. No. 5. pp. 915-929.

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Bousquet A. Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization // International Affairs. 2008. Vol. 84. No. 5. pp. 915-929.

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DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2008.00746.x

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TI - Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization

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AU - Bousquet, Antoine

PY - 2008

DA - 2008/09/01

PB - Oxford University Press

SP - 915-929

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SN - 0020-5850

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@article{2008_Bousquet,

author = {Antoine Bousquet},

title = {Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization},

journal = {International Affairs},

year = {2008},

volume = {84},

publisher = {Oxford University Press},

month = {sep},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2008.00746.x},

number = {5},

pages = {915--929},

doi = {10.1111/j.1468-2346.2008.00746.x}

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Bousquet, Antoine. “Chaoplexic warfare or the future of military organization.” International Affairs, vol. 84, no. 5, Sep. 2008, pp. 915-929. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2346.2008.00746.x.

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Oxford University Press

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International Affairs

scimago Q1

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SJR

1.667

CiteScore

6.9

Impact factor

4.0

ISSN

00205850 (Print)

14682346 (Electronic)

01309641 (Print)