From: Felix Ungman (felix@hu.se)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 03:30:29 MDT
On fredag 8 juni 2001 13.49, Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
>fredagen den 8 juni 2001 10:56 Leonardo Gonzalez wrote:
>> I postulate that electromagnetic / mechanical power = political / military
>> power...
>
>I think that is taking analogies too far.
Not quite, Carl von Clausewitz has some excellent texts on this. War is nothing but an extreme form of politics. That is, the super goal in war is always a political goal. However, sub goals are on the other hand very physical. Military force is indeed a mechanical force, a large scale version of the punching fist in hand-to-hand fighting.
/felix
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