전투이론에 대한 고전역할 개념의 적용과 그 한계 = The Application of Classical Mechanical Concepts to the Combat Theory and its Limitations

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper reviews and delves into the problem of how to apply concepts of the classical Newtonian mechanics to the theory of combat. Starting with identifying elements of combat we point out some confusions lingering in existing theories, especially on maneuver, in relating mechanical concepts to combat elements and in describing combat phenomena in general. Then we proceed to reaffirm the definitions of basic terms in mechanics and try to find or define better terminology of combat corresponding to the mechanical concepts through analogy, abstraction, and generalization. Lastly, several key factors that limits our endeavor to formulate a combat theory using this method are presented with some suggestions to further develop the theory.
We identify the combat elements in four categories: physical, mental, motional, and methodological. Physical elements are essentially time, space, and matter, out of which the latter two are related to 'combat proceeding' for the physical distance and 'combat mass' for the physical mass, respectively, in combat theory. Mental elements, consisting of knowledge, emotion, and will, are the 'motive' force of combat. Motional elements, consisting of movement, collision, and destruction, includes all sorts of concepts related to combat actions named, for instance, combat velocity (tempo), combat acceleration, combat momentum, combat work, combat (kinetic) energy, etc., by analogy to terms of classical mechanics. Such corresponding shows that conceptually similar interrelationship among combat terms holds as among mechanical ones to some degree. However, there exist insurmountable limitations to such an approach due to the fundamental difference between the two theories. They may be said to originate from the tremendous complexity of the combat phenomena and include intractabilities of establishing a precise correspondence between the terminologies of the two disciplines, quantifying combat resources and actions, dealing with mental factors in combat. Nevertheless. vanous scientific methods are still worth being applied for the development of combat theory and it seems necessary to integrate mathematical rnodellings for combat analysis toward the more general and consistent theory.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• I. 서론
• II. 전투의 요소와 양상
• III. '전쟁의 물리학'에 대한 혼동
• IV. 고전역학의 기본개념과 전투현상간의 연계성
• V. 고전역학 개념을 적용한 전투이론의 한계
• VI. 결론