Summary and Concluding Observations

Summary and concluding observations

In 1622, disgruntled shareholders of the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) complained that their interests had been harmed, as the directors had entered into expensive warfare against the Spaniards. The States General had instructed the VOC directors to chase away the Spaniards from the East. The semi-public nature of the VOC was an important conflict of inter...

Summary and concluding remarks

Concluding Remarks/summary

Sometimes one hears the lament[1] that while theorists are lionized, rarely do experimenters get the credit that they deserve. To redress this balance a little, I would like to begin by recalling the life and times of Charles Drummond Ellis; whose work made the invention of the neutrino inevitable. His romantic story starts with his “conversion” from an army career as an artillery officer to re...

Concluding Observations and Potential Implications

Furthermore, as argued in earlier chapters of this report, gaining knowledge is as much a contest as is maneuver or the effective application of firepower in military operations. Thus, we have focused here on relative measures beginning with relative knowledge, for which we developed the knowledge metric. This metric expresses the relationship between ideal and actual knowledge, for both sides,...

Some concluding observations

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