POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Total Annihilation, Cuban Missile Crisis, Security Studies
12 Sep 2018
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Security studies, war studies, peace studies, conflict studies, international security. What state powers can do with their strategies can affect international order. This is how states pick goals and choose appropriate means to achieve them within the resource constrained space. It is the science and art of employing the political economic and psychological as well as military forces of a nation to afford the maximum to adopted policies in peace and war. War was considered a natural occurrence, something that was inevitable, and therefore one had to win. Clausewitz defines strategy as employment of battle as the means toward the attainment of the objectives of war. Clausewitz defines tactics as the use of armed forces in engagement. It is the higher form of strategy; the collection of military, economic and political means and ends with which a nation or a state attempts to achieve security. Military and political means used to achieve a states goal and the larger level.
