GS231 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Grammar, Carl Von Clausewitz, Biopolitics
GS231
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
GS231: The War Systemis Always-Already a Cultural System
The War Systemis Always-Already A Cultural System
● The beaver wars (1620-1702)
○ Iroquois Wars Or The French And Iroquois Wars
■ The war between resources for beaver fur
● French and indian wars
○ New world colonial-imperial global conflict
● The Founding of Halifax
○ British strong point as they pushed into exert their power into
○ Recently there has been protest in the demand to remove cornwalis because he
was the leader of the war towards the aboriginals
■ Proud boys; represent victory of Britain and Canada
● The French And Indian War
● The Royal Proclamation (1763)
○ When britain created a treaty that no one would take their land
● Revolution in military affairs
○ War has to be cultural because you can’t have a war without meanings or shared
meanings and understanding of what war is and how it works
○ Les petite guerres (SMall war doctrine)
■ What war changes from reciprocal to non-linear and asymmetric
○ To understand war you need to understand its cultural context
○ We create the military making war institutionalized to practice war
● The vietnam war was
○ Anti-colonial struggle against occupation
○ Anti-communist war against unified aggression
■ The american saw the communist nations as one whole
○ Opportunity for permanent revolution
■ The chinese saw this as their chance to expand
○ Agreeable proxy conflict best left on lowboil
● What is war?
○ A cultural agreement and set of meanings in context
■ A discourse of truth + sanctioned knowledge
■ re/presentations of war
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GS231-Sept.13: The War System
Continua, Continuations, and (In) Distinctions
● Week 1 Recap
○ The war system is always-already a cultural system?
■ There is still a need for supply or logistic to understand what we know and
feel
■ There are a hegemon to understand the culture of war
● The war system
○ Conventional + bounded + Regular + Explicit (has its own place and time)
○ Unconventional + de-bounded + irregular + implicit
○ Levels of war
■ Strategic, operational, tactic
● Ends, methods, means
● Clausewitz
○ Gave us a way to think about war in a different time and a different place
○ He acknowledges that it is difficult to see war from outside of your own reality
○ He dedicated a lot of time on the ontology, condition, space-time, and conduct of
war
■ The continuation thesis
■ The two trinities
■ The fog/friction of war
■ The tendency ‘rising to extremes’
○ Ontology; means of being and how things become how they are
○ War is a lot of things, it is an active force to make our enemy to do our will
■ able to change its “colours”
■ merely a continuation of policy by other means
○ Remarkable Trinities
■ Trinity 1
● Enmity (passion+ hostility+belligerence)
● Chance (uncertainty + probability)
● Purpose (reason + knowledge + aims)
■ Trinity 2
● People (way of life)
● Military (way of war)
● state/gov’t (way of rule)
● Bio Power
○ Sovereign
■ Where we are governed to things
○ Juridico
■ The panopticon
■ Thinking of being watched to change the way one acts
○ Biopolitics
■ Form of power that does not restrains people, but a power to make
people live their lives in acceptable ways
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Document Summary
Gs231: the war systemis always-already a cultural system. Iroquois wars or the french and iroquois wars. The war between resources for beaver fur. British strong point as they pushed into exert their power into. Recently there has been protest in the demand to remove cornwalis because he was the leader of the war towards the aboriginals. Proud boys; represent victory of britain and canada. When britain created a treaty that no one would take their land. War has to be cultural because you can"t have a war without meanings or shared meanings and understanding of what war is and how it works. What war changes from reciprocal to non-linear and asymmetric. To understand war you need to understand its cultural context. We create the military making war institutionalized to practice war. The american saw the communist nations as one whole. The chinese saw this as their chance to expand. Agreeable proxy conflict best left on lowboil.
