HIS103Y1 Lecture : HIS103 1. On Statecraft and Strategy.doc
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Strategic: personal security: physical survival is the most fundamental of the, we are naturally prone to violence think hobbes. Lives are short, brutish, violent, and ugly: otzi-ice man. The remains are five thousand hundren years old. Discovered in italty in a shelf of rock that was exposed thanks to global warming. He was representative of the human remains that were stretching back to more than hundred years: 3 quarters had died violently. This satisfaction of fundamental: four s"s. sustenance, shelter, society and security, they are mirrored by the basic interests of, national interests. Four s"s. sustenanc e, shelter, society and security. At the dawn of the 20th century we see an emergenc e of a 3rd dimension. 4th dimension comes with the invention of the internet. the power to make war-a legit war. It is the preconditioned need that needs to be satisfied before you can even contemplate anything else: the fundamental requirement was satisfied from state to state.
