An Organic Approach,to Waging War: Evolutionary Lesson Learned

[Jonathan]

Theories of Military Science
Lecture Series No. 2

An Organic Approach to Waging War:
Evolutionary Lesson Learned


As the title of this paper suggests the author approaches
and analyses war from an evolutionary, hence biological
perspective.

Biological evolution and war certainly share similarities,
but to approach the latter in an evolutionary framework
requires a shift from mechanics to biology that
emphasizes dynamics over statics, time-prone over time-free
reality, probabilities and chance over determinism, and
variation and diversity over uniformity. Although the two
phenomena cannot be equated with each other, in an
evolutionary framework war can be seen as a complex
optimization problem.
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