French architects, authors, and engineers kept trying to make the Jeune Ecole work because technology offered an elegant answer to the problem of war. Exceptional ability in one discipline can tempt a specialist to assume the same mastery transfers to every other field. Warfare crosses too many fields for engineering excellence to supply a complete strategy by itself. Generalists may be better placed to recognize those connections and constraints. Military innovation still needs interdisciplinary judgement alongside technical ingenuity.
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Technical expertise is not a complete theory of war
Jeune Ecole solutions appealed to skilled specialists, but mastery of one field does not solve every interacting problem in warfare.