Toward a Nonlinear Theory of War: Changing the Root Metaphor

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen S. Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Theory ◽  
Theory Of War

Key aspects of economic theory of war

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Robert Pustoviit ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Theory Of War ◽  
Key Aspects

A Quantitative Theory of War and Peace in the Gut Microbiota

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libo Jiang ◽  
Xinjuan Liu ◽  
Mengmeng Sang ◽  
Jingwen Gan ◽  
Qian Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Quantitative Theory ◽  
Theory Of War

Moral Victories

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
Just War ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Civil Military Relations ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Humanitarian Interventions ◽  
Theory Of War ◽  
Military Relations

What does it mean to win a moral victory? In the history, practice, and theory of war, this question yields few clear answers. Wars often begin with ideals about just and decisive triumphs but descend into quagmires. In the just war and strategic studies traditions, assumptions about victory underpin legitimations for war but become problematic in discussions about its conduct and conclusion. After centuries of conflict, we still lack a clear understanding of victory or reliable resources for discerning its moral status, its implications for conduct in war, or its relationship to changing ways of war. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to tackle such issues. It is organized in two parts. After a synoptic introduction, Part I, ‘Traditions: The Changing Character of Victory’, charts the historically variable notion of victory and the dialogues and fissures this opens in the just war and strategic canons. Individual chapters analyse the importance of victory in the Bible, Clausewitz’s strategy, the political uses of defeat, arguments for unlimited war, revisionist just war theory, and contemporary norms against fights to the finish. Part II, ‘Challenges: The Problem of Victory in Contemporary Warfare’, shows how changing security contexts exacerbate these issues. Individual chapters discuss ethics in unwinnable wars, the political scars of victory, whether we can ‘win’ humanitarian interventions, contemporary civil–military relations, victory in privatized war, and operations short of war. In both parts, contributors work towards a clearer understanding of victory, forwarding several shared themes discussed in a critical conclusion.

A nonlinear theory for CFRP strengthened aluminum beam

2015 ◽  
Vol 131 ◽  
pp. 574-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanmao Meng ◽  
Wanxin Li ◽  
Hualin Fan ◽  
Yinzhi Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Theory ◽  
Aluminum Beam

scholarly journals Spherically Symmetric Tensor Fields and Their Application in Nonlinear Theory of Dislocations

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 830
Author(s):  
Evgeniya V. Goloveshkina ◽  
Leonid M. Zubov
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Theory ◽  
Hollow Sphere ◽  
Tensor Field ◽  
Exact Analytical Solution ◽  
Symmetric Tensor ◽  
Symmetric Distribution ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Tensor Fields ◽  
Spherically Symmetric Distribution ◽  
Nonlinear Elastic

The concept of a spherically symmetric second-rank tensor field is formulated. A general representation of such a tensor field is derived. Results related to tensor analysis of spherically symmetric fields and their geometric properties are presented. Using these results, a formulation of the spherically symmetric problem of the nonlinear theory of dislocations is given. For an isotropic nonlinear elastic material with an arbitrary spherically symmetric distribution of dislocations, this problem is reduced to a nonlinear boundary value problem for a system of ordinary differential equations. In the case of an incompressible isotropic material and a spherically symmetric distribution of screw dislocations in the radial direction, an exact analytical solution is found for the equilibrium of a hollow sphere loaded from the outside and from the inside by hydrostatic pressures. This solution is suitable for any models of an isotropic incompressible body, i. e., universal in the specified class of materials. Based on the obtained solution, numerical calculations on the effect of dislocations on the stress state of an elastic hollow sphere at large deformations are carried out.

scholarly journals Nonlinear Theory of Continuous Media

1964 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Cemal Eringen ◽  
P. R. Paslay
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Theory ◽  
Continuous Media
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