HTST 489 Lecture : Nov 1.pdf
14 Feb 2014
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First moment in history we can use the mathematization of data to represent geospatial information. Maps become an intel source, as do the modes of measurement which allow you to find exactly where you are. Telescopes and other equipment become important adjuncts as well. Modes of measurement some technological means of expanding the human sense leap forward in strength and value and in their importance to strategic planning, become normal mode of planning a campaign. First area where western techniques have a significant impact on non-western civilizations. States using this information to understand the environment but also allowing specialists to do the things which nowadays we would expect intel officers and general staff officers to do. When general staff officers emerge in 1900s, it"s building on the skeleton of the engineering approach. Mathematizing geospatial information and topographical information, finding means to represent what the world looks like. On the other hand, lot of limits to what one knows.
