POL 3 Lecture 7: 7 Lecture 4-18
Document Summary
They both defected because they did go to war. Even though they both agreed that demobilizing would be good to stop right now, it would be even better if you stopped demobilizing today and i stopped demobilizing tomorrow. Cult of the offensive -- and why it failed. Miscalculated the technological developments that the defensive had made, and thus outweighed the benefits of preemptive attacks. The concert of europe had collapsed in previous years, so there were no international institutions enforcing laws and encouraging cooperation. States had no reason to cooperate in the anarchic international system. Us intervened in the small country of korea, but the power of the. Un and the us was not enough to reunite korea. Explanation: chinese influence and power -- even though the us was more powerful than china at the time, it was an asymmetric effort, so korea was willing to put a lot more into the war than the.
