ABSTRACT
The most glaring deficiency of rationality in thinking about war is found in the way the game-theoretic mode of reasoning has fostered the intellectualization of war in the strategic community. Intellectualization of war has given military science a new lease on life. Differentiation and refinement of concepts is the principal mark of intellectualization. Colin Gray, who regards himself as a member of the “strategic community,” gives evidence of keen insight into this latest phase in the evolution of war as an institution and, incidentally, into the reason why the intellectualization of war blossomed most luxuriously in the US Gray goes on to list the “catalysts of inquiry” that drive strategic studies of today forward and open up new vistas. According to Gray, “massive retaliation” did not mean that the US would respond with a nuclear attack on Moscow to every transgression attributed to “international communism.”
