Sources of the contemporary strategic thinking. Readiness to unlimited violence

• Authors: Jarosław J. Piątek

Abstracts

EN

Relationships between the United States and the Soviet Union not only wielded enormous influence on almost half century of international relations, but freed also an entire number of analyses and strategic theories, which and in our times have their bigger or smaller references. Cold war in one’s for the political plane and military was the “golden age” for the strategy. For the author of the most interesting strategic analyses, with which in the huge rank it isn’t possible to comprehend, as only historical formed the strategic action appealing above all to Clausewitza and Lenin. The strategy is pointing, how a victory refers through the war, it isn’t possible so, of course, to ponder issues of the strategy until they determine, what the war is. According to the famous Clausewitza definition, the war is an act of violence, being aimed at forcing the opponent to fulfil of our will. This expression contains two crucial elements. Firstly, the war assumes the violence what is distinguishing her from other forms of political, economic or military rivalry. Secondly, it isn’t the pointless slaughter, but the tool being used to achieve the political purpose. It outlined the vision of world with time with the arms race and manners of the effective disarmament?

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 207-223

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Jarosław J. Piątek

• Instytut Politologii i Europeistyki Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop201213

Biblioteka Nauki

2041725