Season 1 · Episode 19
Ep 019 "Murphy Rex: Complexity and War"
Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast · Bill Buppert
June 26, 202332m 32s
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Show Notes
I discuss the complex adaptive system that is war that Clausewitz categorically identified as "friction" in the nineteenth century. We'll examine what chaos and complexity has to do with conflict, why it is inevitable and why wars are won by the least incompetent armies and navies.
References:
Nassim Taleb Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game
Carl von Clausewitz On War
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