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The theories of everything stuff comes heavily from the academies as I understand it. Cadets go through a curriculum of military history that tries to look at e
by jasonwatkinspdx 5y ago
The theories of everything stuff comes heavily from the academies as I understand it. Cadets go through a curriculum of military history that tries to look at everything since Rome from 100,000 ft altitude abstracting some hodgepodge set of exogenous principals of warfare.
The other part is these "theories of war" become vehicles for self advancement. These become almost cult like fads within the pentagon. Then a few years later the new fad takes over. Remember "Shock and Awe?" Don't hear much about that anymore do we...
- ethbr0 5y agoIt's inherent in hierarchical command structures, especially with advancement (and therefore politics). From a game theory perspective, groups are incentivized to advertise (and hopefully popularize) their positions. Individuals are then incentivized to align and advertise their allegiance with either popular or up-and-coming positions. The end result... exactly what we see. (And it's not like this isn't present in tech via cargo cultism either)