2006-07-30 00:05:00 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
I think your idea of war machine implies the ability to wage war out of choice rather than necessity, given that a people will wage war if they feel threatened no matter what the resources. It would seem a possibility that the likelihood of waging war would increase if the resources to do it successfully were more available. I think this is a valid hypothesis.
Some perspectives might challenge this. One idea is that war making can come first, or that warmaking may serve as a distraction from the failure of daily toils to make an adequate living. Reagan is often credited with realizing this in the USSR, pushing them to invest in the war machine so much that the lack of day to day resources were unbearable for the population.
Later presidents Bush I and Clinton have also been implicated in watching a country's military to relative GDP per capita spending to identify a country becoming a "war machine" for Serbia, Bosnia, Libya and Iraq. China has maintained a low comparable ratio, so at least previously, had not been considered an emerging threat by those chief executives.
2006-07-30 01:32:41 · answer #1 · answered by bizsmithy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How do you define "War machine"? If you mean, a culture's tendency to think of human life as cheap and disposable, I'd say it has a lot to do with it. Life in an urban gang can be short and brutal...it doesn't tend to make one sympathetic to another person's wants or needs. Likewise, if your national economy is in the tank, unemployment is rampant and starvation is a possibility and someone comes along and tells you "They did it. They are the cause of your misery. Get rid of them and your life will improve...you can wind up with a Nazi Germany.
People look for ways to change the environment to better suit their needs....that holds true sociologically as well as physically.
2006-07-30 00:21:30 · answer #2 · answered by ordinaryenigma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to work to build up a country so that it is successful and powerful. But if their lives are very mundane then they will be unhappy, and that is not good for a war machine, because a war requires support at home.
2006-07-30 11:02:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a no brainer...
The haves and the have nots.
Give it to me or I will fight you for it.
2006-07-30 01:43:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋