POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Military Strategy, Warsaw Pact, Robert Jervis
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Uses of force: the political uses of power, use of force almost always reps the partial failure of a policy, most wars are not as blood as they could be because of the mutual avoidance of certain outcomes. Even at war, 2 countries recognize certain outcomes they don"t want and share interests in avoiding them: 3 factors account for the increasing destructiveness of the wars of the last 200 years. Growth in the capacity, and thus need, of states to field ever larger numbers of forces. The four functions of force robert j. If defence is not possible, then the next priority is deterrence: defensive use of force. To ward off an attack and to minimize damage to oneself if attacked. Can involve both peaceful and physical employment and both repellent (second) strikes and offensive (first) strikes: deterrent use of a force.
