Engineering a New Order:
1. What is the difference between the
"art of war" and the "science of war"?
The science of war is the principles,
analyses, and rules of military science.
It includes collecting and ordering records of past experiments to
determine the best principles and concepts to be used. The art of war is the
application of these principles and rules. The art of war seeks to produce
certain effects while science is meant to investigate the causes of the effects
(Hacker). The art of war uses the records and data collected in the science of
war to produce more effective results in future operations.
3. What is the definition of the "military-industrial
complex"?
The military-industrial complex is
the connection between the policies that are created and the members of
Congress from districts that are dependent on military industries. Military spending directly influences
the industries that produce the equipment needed by our armed forces. The
connections deal with the relationships between members of Congress,
bureaucracies, and interest groups as well. There are a variety of different political tactics used to
influence one another to get funding and desirable policies passed. The end result influences the amount of
funding and oversight of different programs and industries. A fear of the
military-industrial complex was that if the military industries gained too much
power, policies might be passed that are not in the best interest of the country
as whole.
The Internet Revolution:
2. What would Bush think of a smart
phone in relation to his "memex"?
A memex was considered to be a type
of information management system. It
was thought of as something that was able to extend memory. I think Bush would be amazed by the
smartphone and the capacity of information storage it is capable of and at such
a quick rate. Bush also thought
that the memex could serve as a private file library, where all your personal
files would be available, creating the concept of memory which is vital to
receive feedback. This concept was
key for the persistence of information, which along with many other
advancements, I believe contributed to the overall existence of the smartphones
that are available today.
HI Kelly -- Who's your partner here? Maybe you could add that info to the blog entry and email it to me as well...
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Regarding question 3 -- the MIC is much more than the political actors -- it is the entire range of industries, people, state organizations (the military and others), along with the infrastructure that make all those possible. This would include most major and many minor corporations in the US -- all the auto makers, GE, Boeing, Microsoft, HP, etc etc etc... (I note that the Wikipedia article is actually skewed more to describing the political actors rather than the actual industrial actors!) ...
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