DAVY Scott M BENTLEY Lorne W

The paradoxical trinity : war as a complex adaptive system and how to approach it using systems thinking and design/ Lorne W Bentley, Scoot M Davy - Ottawa : National Defence, 2009 - 50 pages ; 27 cm.

Text in English and French on inverted pages.

It examines the implications of Professor Bar Yam's postulate and offers some specific recommendations regarding how Canadian Forces (CF) doctrine development and the professional development of officers and senior NCOs should be modified to take advantage of advances in systems thinking and complexity theory and their application to the profession of arms.

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LEADERSHIP -- CANADIAN FORCES
THEORY OF WAR
COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM
SYSTEM THINKING