"With computers acting as the stimulus, the theory of war was assimilated into that of microeconomics. . . . Instead of evaluating military operations by their product âthat is, victory â calculations were cast in terms of inputâoutput and cost effectiveness. Since intuition was replaced by calculation, and since the latter wasto be carried out with the aid of computers, it was necessary that all the phenomena of war be reduced to quantitative form. Consequently everything that could be quantiïŹed was, while everything that could not be tended to be thrown onto the garbage heap."
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