POLS 241 Lecture 3: Pols 241 Sept 12 week 1 lecture 3.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Political Studies
• Course: POLS 241
• Professor: Dru Lauzon

Document Summary

Pols 241 sept 11/2013 week 1 lecture 3 (role of the military and their motives) Wwii (during this time it was discovered that the best way to win a war was to bomb civilian base and factories: military changed. Had to reorganize according to rational and economic principles. With napoleon warfare changed because he needed to mobilize a nation in order to defend. As such they were interested in how to protect the people from being subverted by adding in courses on political science, sociology, psychology ect: they were convinced that a weak society= weak country, Latin america militaries felt that the real problem was backwardness and lack of modernization. Believed that modernization would make the population resistant to communism. Therefore militaries wanted this modernization to happen as soon as possible. (eg. canada) Felt that modernization was the key to making the nation powerful and great. 3) military officers saw themselves as elites (50s)