"With computers acting as the stimulus, the theory of war was assimilated into that of microeconomics. . . . Instead of evaluating military operations by their product āthat is, victory ā calculations were cast in terms of inputāoutput 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 quantiļ¬ed was, while everything that could not be tended to be thrown onto the garbage heap."
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