POLC38H3 Chapter Notes -Neoliberalism, Military Strategy, Ethnic Cleansing
Document Summary
War economy: system that is centralized, totalizing, autarchic (economic independence as national policy) Old wars: characterized by confrontation b/w different states, mobilized factors into fighting enemy, new wars are low social participation or harnessing of economic power, low-tech weapons (hand- held) Civil conflicts may start initially as grievances based conflict, as actors and movement and rebel groups fight state, search for revenue, motivation switches into accumulation of resources and solving of grievance second. Actors war is less costly and more of venture in which make profit. Multiplicity of fighting units both public and private, state/non-state, mixture. Therefore civil conflicts become search for resources (local blockades, national diamond mines: 5 main types (remnants) regular armed forces. Loss of moral resulting from cuts in military spending, declining prestige, shortages of equipment, spare parts, fuel and ammunition, inadequate training. Paramilitary (function and organization similar to professional military but not part of state) groups. Paramilitary groups associated with particular extremists parties of political factions.
