{"title":"The Combat Syllabus: Life, Death, and Books","authors":"Evan Renfro","doi":"10.1353/tae.2023.a901573","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes what junior officers in the US military read, why such readings are assigned, and how such reading may influence the project of war itself. The main concern of this article is to scrutinize a specific cultural artifact of US imperialism. What books are junior officers in the United States military required to read? Why are they assigned these specific books? How do such readings relate to the project of empire itself? I focus on books assigned to junior officers because these are the under-analyzed military leaders most closely involved with the actual brutality of war. This \"combat syllabus\" fills a need for the production of both war and warriors within the assemblage of US imperialism.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":"38 1","pages":"449 - 471"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2023.a901573","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article analyzes what junior officers in the US military read, why such readings are assigned, and how such reading may influence the project of war itself. The main concern of this article is to scrutinize a specific cultural artifact of US imperialism. What books are junior officers in the United States military required to read? Why are they assigned these specific books? How do such readings relate to the project of empire itself? I focus on books assigned to junior officers because these are the under-analyzed military leaders most closely involved with the actual brutality of war. This "combat syllabus" fills a need for the production of both war and warriors within the assemblage of US imperialism.
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The research on discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs) is multi-disciplinary in nature and its development has been dynamic. Examples of DEDSs include manufacturing plants, communication networks, computer systems, management information databases, logistics systems, command-control-communication systems, robotics, and other man-made operational systems. The state processes of such systems cannot be described by differential equations in general. The aim of this journal, Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, is to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on the modeling and control of, and all other aspects related to, DEDSs. In particular, the journal publishes papers dealing with general theories and methodologies of DEDSs and their applications to any particular subject, including hybrid systems, as well as papers discussing practical problems from which some generally applicable DEDS theories or methodologies can be formulated; The scope of this journal is defined by its emphasis on discrete events and the dynamic nature of the systems and on their modeling, control and optimization.
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