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100 1 _aZILINCIK Samuel
245 _aTechnology is awesome, but so what?!
_bexploring the relevance of technologically inspired awe to the construction of military theories/
_cSamuel Zilincik
260 _c2022
520 _aMilitary theories are thoughts explaining how armed forces are to be used to achieve objectives. These thoughts are often influenced by emotions, yet the influence of emotions on military theory-crafting remains underexplored. This article fills the gap by exploring how awe influences military theorising. Awe is an emotion associated with the feeling of transcendence. Several military theorists felt that way about the technologies of air power, nuclear power and cyber power, respectively. Consequently, their theories became narrowly focused, technocentric and detached from the previous theories and military history. Understanding these tendencies can help improve military theorising in the future.
650 _aAWE
650 _aMILITARY THEORY
650 _aAIR POWER
650 _aNUCLEAR POWER
650 _aCYBER POWER
773 _aThe Journal of Strategic Studies :
_gVol 45 No.1, February 2022, pp. 5-32 (98)
598 _aTECHNOLOGY, MILITARY, WMD
856 _uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2021.1923919
_zClick here for full text
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