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How does the economy affect the nature of war? The role of the economic factor in warfare is really a product of the industrial revolution of the last 250 years. Before the industrial revolution the most important factor in military power was simply the number of men and horses you could raise and pay, and it was a much bigger problem
Feb 12, 2016 · Tactics are the use of armed forces in a particular battle, while strategy is the doctrine of the use of individual battles for the purposes of war. Carl von Clausewitz. Strategy is about picking the right battles. Tactics are about successfully executing those battles.
- The Two Types of War
- Clausewitz’S Minimal Wars
- Corbett’s War Limited by Contingent
- Applying The Concept to Modern Challenges
After Napoleon’s defeat, the European statesmen gathered at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) faced a complicated situation, much like the diplomats in modern times encountered after the two world wars, in 1919 and 1945. They sought answers to the momentous question of how to restore the world order and avoid another conflagration. The Second Trea...
Despite its imposing title “The Effect of the Political Aim on the Military Objective,” Book VIII Chapter 6A is a very short text — only a page and a half in today’s most popular translation by Paret/Howard. Therefore, it is fair to conclude that its passages were mere rough outlines for ideas Clausewitz planned to develop further. The key to analy...
When Sir Julian Corbett worked on Some Principles of Maritime Strategy (1911), he most likely read On Warin the J.J.Graham’s English translation from 1873. The words “war limited by contingent,” however, appear nowhere in the translated text, nor linguistically resembles anything in the original German. Therefore, despite adding quotation marks to ...
While Clausewitz only drafted the concept’s theoretical outlines, Corbett advanced the possibility of waging war limited by contingent in a deliberate and potentially successful manner. His writings’ practical lens and possibilities for understanding the phenomenon—and perhaps successfully pursuing it—is what makes Corbett’s concept so compelling f...
This minor but statistically significant difference suggests that democracy has a slightly greater impact than wealth in determining victory; however, the almost identical impact of both factors on war victory helps us to understand why scholars are able to provide equally strong arguments and evidence in support of the view that democracy or ...
Mar 10, 2020 · As such, money can be the determining factor in a country’s ability to mobilize economic and military power. But once war is underway, the unpredictability of the war’s duration and outcome means that monetary policies are subordinate to political and military goals.
- Kenneth Mouré
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Feb 19, 2010 · Empirical studies have found that military power influences patterns of international cooperation, trade policy, economic development, identity construction, and, of course, war causation and termination.
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Economic factors play a key role in studies that explore the risk of civil war and terrorism; studies on the economic origins of state repression are, by contrast, relatively rare. First, the empirical literature in this area is examined by presenting the contributions to the civil war literature.
