Abstract:ADDING NONLINEAR TOOLS TO THE STRATEGIST'S TOOLBOX., by LTC Dennis T. Gyllensporre, Swedish Army, 157 pages.Since the seventeenth century, Sir Isaac Newton's laws of motion have had tremendous impact on the Western world's mind-sets for understanding nature as predictable and orderly. Consequently, Western strategic culture has been based on a linear paradigm. In linear systems outputs are proportional to the input, and the ration between input and output remains constant. Linear systems also comply with the r… Show more
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