TY - BOOK AU - DAVY Scott M AU - BENTLEY Lorne W ED - Canadian Forces Leadership Institute, Canadian Defence Academy. TI - The paradoxical trinity: war as a complex adaptive system and how to approach it using systems thinking and design SN - (pbk.) PY - 2009/// CY - Ottawa PB - National Defence KW - LEADERSHIP KW - CANADIAN FORCES KW - THEORY OF WAR KW - COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEM KW - SYSTEM THINKING N1 - Text in English and French on inverted pages N2 - 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 ER -