The Role of Luck
Gordon B Greer
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The Role of Luck

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In attempting to analyze the role of luck in war, a rather narrow definition of luck is necessary. The conventional dictionary definitions of luck are "a force that brings good fortune or adversity" and "the events or circumstances that operate for or against an individual." Those definitions are so broad that they would appear to cover many, perhaps most, events in war. There is in literature an old expression, deus ex machina, a translation into Latin of the original Greek theos ek mechanes. While it literally translates as "a god from a machine", its meaning is a person or thing that appear...