HISTORY 3570 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carl Von Clausewitz, Guil
20 Jan 2016
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Emphasis on strategy: as a political phenomenon. Focus on strategy: as a social phenomenon. Level of time: virtually every nation and region of the world, re-drew the political map of the world, shaped out war paradigm, level i: geography and geological time, level ii: structures. Social and economic organization: level iii: events. You can"t understand a culture without knowing how they wage war dr. What is war: official definition: armed conflict between countries, dr. guilmartin"s definition: organized1, socially sanctioned2 armed3 violence employed by opposing groups against one another, normally for political4, social5, or economic purposes. Approaches to study war: continuation of politics by other means carl von clausewitz, as an operational phenomenon: Causes of wwi: europe: economic center of the world. 2 to determine the difference between war and crime. No recent experiences: layer ii, layer iii: End of aftermath: large demographics, economies, technology, politics, allied military victory, equivocal political results, german nationals, wilson"s fourteen points.
