POL S261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Carl Von Clausewitz, B. H. Liddell Hart, Hedley Bull
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Next lecture concentrates on realism - lots of tie in. Bombing in new york, by an afghan man who radicalized after visiting home a few years ago. Donald trump is planning on taking the oil from iraq as spoils of war and leaving a proxy government. You may not be interested in war but war is interested in you. -leon trotsky (killed in mexico city by his own body guard). If you wanna understand peace, understand war. - basil liddell hart. We"ve had over 14,000 wars have been fought. Typically wars between states, but also non state actors like al queda =. 1815 theres been at least 224 wars, but the estimation jumps to 559 depending on the de nition. That being said less people are dying in wars these days. Some say human nature, we are willing to kill in order to achieve our desired outcome.