Key concept most English-speaking thinkers fail to grasp: the importance of scale. Solutions that work at one level fail at another. The trick is unifying Taylorist big-picture thought with Clausewitzian decentralization - each at its proper place in the scale.
Higher-level commanders generate intentions, which flow down because war is politics/policy. Line personnel generate facts, which flow up. Each serves its own function in the system, their independence and interdependence responsible for generating adaptability.
Nerve endings tells brain what hurts. Brain comes up with strategy for avoiding the suck. Nerve impulse sent back down creates a range of possibilities the local fibers actuate, for lack of a better word springing to mind right now.
Since you seem to be in deep philosophy reading mode. Been there, good times!
Key concept most English-speaking thinkers fail to grasp: the importance of scale. Solutions that work at one level fail at another. The trick is unifying Taylorist big-picture thought with Clausewitzian decentralization - each at its proper place in the scale.
Higher-level commanders generate intentions, which flow down because war is politics/policy. Line personnel generate facts, which flow up. Each serves its own function in the system, their independence and interdependence responsible for generating adaptability.
Nerve endings tells brain what hurts. Brain comes up with strategy for avoiding the suck. Nerve impulse sent back down creates a range of possibilities the local fibers actuate, for lack of a better word springing to mind right now.
Since you seem to be in deep philosophy reading mode. Been there, good times!