Factors in the historical-developmental relations between the social sciences and the military have encouraged a positivistic science, on the one hand, and a hierarchy-obedience-force military orientation, on the other. Both are anachronistic. Yet their interdependence makes them encourage each other. The social sciences serve even the military poorly at the present time. The positivistic handicap in the social sciences keeps them from properly serving in the solution of political, social, and economic problems, thus exacerbating the world crisis and increasing the likelihood of war.
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