Do not let the title of this article fool you: Col Steven Carey and Col Robyn Read have added a sterling contribution to the professional literature on effects-based operations (EBO). The opening paragraphs alone offer one of the best, most concise statements of the difference between art and science in warfare—and between fog and friction—that I have ever read. The authors are also quite right to say that the worst shortfall in EBO today lies in the "ad hocracy" (64) that has prevailed in the development of concepts and doctrine over the last decade, which until lately has inhibited the usefulness of effects-based thinking to war fighters.
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机译：不要让本文的标题欺骗您：Col Steven Carey和Col Robyn Read上校对基于效果的操作（EBO）的专业文献做出了杰出贡献。就我所读过的内容而言，仅开篇就对战争中的艺术与科学之间以及雾与摩擦之间的区别提供了最好，最简洁的陈述之一。作者也很正确地说，当今EBO的最严重不足在于“专制”（64），在过去十年中概念和学说的发展中普遍存在，直到最近，这种专制都抑制了效果的实用性-基于对战斗人员的思考。
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