Bartholomew, at the Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata at the inauguration of a conference on the Environment and sustainable development, on 1 February 2010.Īssociating religion with the art and science of war can be seen as irrational or even impious. – Speech of the Ecumenical Patriarch, Mr. The position of the dethroned God was not taken by the ‘enlightened man’ but by the pompous man-god’
‘The common root of all forms of the human ability for destruction is indeed the self-deification of man, the ‘God complex’, as it was called. As an antidote to this influence, the article suggests a new perception on military strategy which emphasises adaptability and flexibility and is based on a cultural paradigm from the Orthodox Christian Faith. The article then examines the influence of Western intellectualism, which is a basic element of Western Christianity, over the development of modern theories and perceptions on military strategy and the risks that can arise for future Western armies from this impact. interconnected with precision guided munitions (PGMs) of various configurations. The acronym today is C5ISR, with the addition of Combat Systems. This worldview permeated the development of military strategy, thereby facilitating its transformation in the worldview of a commander-god this is the same worldview which today threatens to reach extremes, assisted by technological evolution allowing the development of robust C4ISR networksĬommand, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance. It was in the framework of a religified Humanism, in which man ‘stole’ God’s capabilities and properties, that the worldview of man-god was created. This article examines how a religious cultural paradigm deriving from the Humanism of the West affects the modern art and science of War.
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