Re:World military expenditure passes $2T for first time
by adolph on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @02:11PM
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> revolutions normally come through civil conflict, not military wars
I cant agree with you on this for two reasons:
1. A stipulated definition of revolution is needed to make a claim about what is normal or most typical.
2. Even when revolution takes the form of armed conflict (typically because its ideas can't win), I think the decisive expenditures are military as opposed to civil (i.e. police) because the territory has natural divisions within their military or because an outside entity/ies provides assistance to a side. Witness Lebanon, Syria, Vietnam, Korea, ....
I cant agree with you on this for two reasons:
1. A stipulated definition of revolution is needed to make a claim about what is normal or most typical.
2. Even when revolution takes the form of armed conflict (typically because its ideas can't win), I think the decisive expenditures are military as opposed to civil (i.e. police) because the territory has natural divisions within their military or because an outside entity/ies provides assistance to a side. Witness Lebanon, Syria, Vietnam, Korea, ....