McNair Paper Number 52, Contents, October 1996
Clausewitzian Friction and Future War
Barry D. Watts
CONTENTS
PREFACE
1. THE ONCE AND FUTURE PROBLEM
OF GENERAL FRICTION
2. CLAUSEWITZ'S DEVELOPMENT OF THE
UNIFIED CONCEPT OF A GENERAL FRICTION
(GESAMTBEGRIFF EINER ALLGEMEINEN
FRIKTION)
3. SCHARNHORST"S CLARITY ABOUT WAR
AS IT ACTUALLY IS (EIGENTLICHE KRIEG)
4. CLAUSEWITZ"S MATURE CONCEPT
OF GENERAL FRICTION
5. FRICTION BEFORE, DURING, AND
AFTER DESERT STORM
6. THE INTRACTABILITY OF STRATEGIC
SURPRISE
7. THE INACCESSIBILITY OF CRITICAL
INFORMATION
8. EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AS A SOURCE
OF FRICTION AND EXEMPLAR FOR THEORY
9. "SITUATION AWARENESS" IN AIR-TO-AIR COMBAT AND FRICTION
10. NONLINEARITY AND A MODERN
TAXONOMY OF GENERAL FRICTION
11. IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE WAR,
ITS THEORY, AND ITS CONDUCT
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