ABSTRACT
Without science, contemporary war would be impossible. And as machine metaphors dominate war so they do science, although now the machine is clearly a computer, an information processor. This is probably the central theme technoscience has reinforced in the military, and in its variations this is the main point of this chapter. But it is complicated. At the heart of most dreams for absolute information there is the ideal of pure intelligence, of artificial intelligence. It is a pervasive and peculiar version of ration-ality that is masculine, mathematical, emotionless, and instrumentalist.
