POL 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Urban Warfare, Cyberwarfare, Massive Retaliation
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Laws can change the geopolitical structure, always concerned with relative gains. For example, if a law is passed allowing people to pass through the arctic by boat, it is a relative gains situation because states are not competing for resources, which translate to material power. States want to implement international law through institutions. But the states still do the enforcement. If others see you as credible, that is powerful. I will impose military force on you until you change your policy. Not forcing someone to do something, but changing their cost-benefit analysis. Requires cooperation: using military force to get cooperation. Deteriorate enemy forces and will through sustained combat. Break the enemy"s will to continue fighting. Use speed and mobility to prevent enemy from organizing its forces. Based on idea that you put them into a position where they can"t effectively mobilize -- not necessarily destroy them completely. Impose high costs to break enemy will without battlefield defeat of forces.
