Close-minded? Yes.

I finally understand what he meant now when he claimed that "engineers need to pick up a book." To understand the mechanics of a beam or an internal combustion engine is not to understand mechanics--it is to understand a portion of mechanics. The mechanics of war requires an entirely different level of analytical thought process and a altogether restructured difficulty of critical thinking. In addition, the eyebrow must furrow with an entirely new purpose in a pattern foreign to the way we strive to think scientifically. It requires an understanding apart from what we learn in problem-solving approaches by mathematics and science. Striving for intelligence is to be outside of an engineer, and truly thinking outside of the box, the box called "SOE".