POLI 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stealth Technology, Russia-2
20 Dec 2016
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Three doctrines -> (defensive, offensive, deterrent,) compellence, coercive diplomacy, swaggering, preventative and preemptive. Us ranked highest for biggest military, with russia 2nd and china 3rd: us spends much more, but these days is declining in power, has to look at: Strategies, tactics, education, leadership, resolve, training, etc: ex. North korea: not the richest country/ doesn"t have a lot of resources, but a lot of morale and resolve. Winners often win bc of qualitative factors and other non-measurable factors: democracies are often better at winning/fighting long wars than non-democracies are, kenneth loss of strength gradient. Uk empire gong all the to africa/ fiji bc they got the people there to fight for them (small numbers of uk soldiers could control many natives who weren"t organized) Britain used divide and conquer to get so much control: how did militaries solve/overcome the loss of strength gradient.
