The Centre for Military Studies would like to invite you to the seminar

Ordering War: The Scientific Way of Warfare in Afghanistan and Beyond

How to manage the chaos of the battlefield? In his book ‘The Scientific Way of Warfare’ Dr Antoine Bousquet traces how different scientific conceptual frameworks have been employed to rationalize and order the way military force has been organized and deployed by Western states. From the mechanistic clockwork model of the seventeenth century to the cybernetic systems analysis of the Cold War, scientific thought has had an enormous effect on how military force has been conceived and organized. Equally so today, where visions of ‘net-centric warfare’, ‘swarming’ and networked ‘effect-based operations’ draw on non-linear chaos theory and complexity science as ordering principles for the conduct of current warfare as experienced in both Iraq and currently in Afghanistan.

In order to further explore the ordering relationship produced by the entanglement of science and war – the scientific way of warfare – it is a great pleasure forthe Centre for Military Studies to invite you to a seminar with Dr Antoine Bousquet.

The seminar will take place Thursday, August 19^th 2010 from 1.30 to 3 pm., at the University of Copenhagen, CSS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, room 7.0.40. The room is to be found on the ground floor in building 7, situated left to the mainentrance. A map of the Campus can be found at http://polsci.ku.dk/bilag/css_kort.pdf/

If you have any questions you are welcome to contact Research Fellow Kristian Søby Kristensen at ksk@ifs.ku.dk or +4535324084.

Registration for the seminar is necessary and must be sent to cms@ifs.ku.dk by Monday, August 16^th. 2010. If you have any colleagues who could also be interested, you are welcome to forward this invitation.

Yours sincerely

Henrik Jedig Jørgensen

Acting director, Centre for Military Studies