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For those interested in mathematical systematization of this and related problems, the work of Professors John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern on the theory of games would be illuminating. See their Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1947. However, for various reasons I do not share their conviction that their theory could be directly and profitably applied to problems of military strategy. 14 And exceedingly difficult to work out. The issue is confused by all sorts of differentials in related fixed and sunk capital, in rates of obsolescence, in multiple-use characteristics, and in operating as distinct from initial costs.
10 ‘Morality and Force in International Politics’, in Studies, 235; ‘Ethics and Power in International Policy’, in Causes, 61; ‘Military Power and International Order’, in Studies, 209. B. Gallie, ‘Essentially Contested Concepts’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 56 (1955–6), 167–98. For a discussion of power along these lines see William E. ; Princeton, NJ, 1983). 12 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, parts 1 and II (Indianapolis, 1958), 78. 13 Max Weber, Economy and Society, ed. , New York, 1968), 53.
In modern, complex structures this will mean that it has been institutionalized. For reasons that are familiar this is extremely difficult in international society but it has been achieved in some areas—for example Western Europe and North Strategic studies and the problem of power 31 America. Conflict will develop within a political community to the extent that institutional forms leave one group feeling disadvantaged, and to the extent that it sees itself to be a distinct community on its own. This is the natural state of the international community.