We have escaped the battle field and now can, with modem guidance system on missies, touch virtually every square yard of the earth’ s surface. It no longer involves only the military profession, but engulfs also entire civilian populations. Nuclear weapons have made major war un thinkable. We are forced, however, to think about the unthinkable because a thermonuclear war could come by accident or miscalculation. We must accept the paradox of maintaining a capacity to fight such a war so that we will never have to do so.
War has also lost most of its utility in achieving the traditional goals of conflict. Control of territory carries with it the obligation to provide subject people certain administrative, health, education, and other social services; such obligations far outweigh the benefits of control. If the ruled population is ethically or racially different from the rulers, tensions and chronic unrest often exist which further reduce the benefits and increase t
A. theorize about the role of the warrior statesman in pre-modernized society
B. explain the effects of war on both modernized and pre-modernized societies
C. Contrast the value of war in a modernized society with its value in per-modernized society
D. discuss the political and economic circumstances which lead to war in pre-modernized societies
We have escaped the battle field and now can, with modem guidance system on missies, touch virtually every square yard of the earth’ s surface. It no longer involves only the military profession, but engulfs also entire civilian populations. Nuclear weapons have made major war un thinkable. We are forced, however, to think about the unthinkable because a thermonuclear war could come by accident or miscalculation. We must accept the paradox of maintaining a capacity to fight such a war so that we will never have to do so.
War has also lost most of its utility in achieving the traditional goals of conflict. Control of territory carries with it the obligation to provide subject people certain administrative, health, education, and other social services; such obligations far outweigh the benefits of control. If the ruled population is ethically or racially different from the rulers, tensions and chronic unrest often exist which further reduce the benefits and increase t
A. a valid tool of national policy
B. an immoral act of aggression
C. economically wasteful and socially infeasible
D. restricted in scope to military participants
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