Penrose asserts that the arete of man is to achieve creative new solutions, in contrast to the computer, which can crank out old solutions more efficiently.

Calls for a change in military culture are good and apparently necessary. But they must be understood as part of a broader change within society as a whole. While Taylorism, the reduction of business to an algorithm, generally reigns in American culture and business as a whole; it will also seem the intuitive, commonsense solution to military problems also.

So considering positions such as Penrose’s is important in effecting an overall change.