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Such rationalizations have to appear conceptually consistent (the hallmark of modernism) if resources are to be reliably produced and obtained. When the products of these rationalizations are presented to political decision-makers, the ideology seems spirally reinforcing. Modernism manifests in the creation and sustainment of military structures that, over time, become sedimentary; that is, they may be described as solutions looking for problems (March and Olsen 1989, p. 20 There are instances when complex problem settings are so dynamic that they do not “respond” well to the use of sedimentary solutions, particularly those of the modern military staff and their decision sciences.
These deeply sedimentary, superset ways of framing for the design of military meanings and behaviors in interventions are akin to Lewis Feuer’s definition of ideology (mentioned earlier). A postinstitutional philosophy of Military Design would seek to expose how institutionalized frames, such as those formalized in written doctrine, are dominating thoughts about what should be done and would suggest a need to find alternative framings. 22 Sociology of Military Science Some final introductory thoughts The essence of the argument in this chapter, and in the remainder of this book, revolves primarily around criticizing the epistemology of modern military institutions.
Nicholas Rescher (2001a), Philosophical Reasoning: “. it is unlikely in the extreme that there will soon be a restoration of the ambitious single-author systemizations that have characterized philosophical productivity in the past. it has become multilateral and diffuse—no longer the product of single minds” (p. 273). Frames [interesting that he calls these a “network of contexts”] include: cognitive, scientific, social, technical, and political. Gareth Morgan (2006), Images of Organization: “When we recognize that competing theories are competing metaphors, we can.
