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Literature critique: Give a change to war
Laura Turrini Brandão ID: 14000100
UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
Introduction
One of the most ideal approaches to understand the motivation of the work "Give War a Chance" is to understand the writer. Edward Luttwak Nicolae, known as a political scientist, American military strategist and historian, published some works describing military and international relations strategies.
Luttwak, has his carrier linked with Military area, acting as consultant to the Secretary of Defense's Office, National Security Council, US State Department, the United States Navy, United States Army, United States Air Force and several Ministries of NATO.
His great experiences in war is even more evident in his article, "Give war a chance" (Luttwak, 1999), arguing in essence that military battles should last longer.
According to Luttwak, peace can only be achieved after all belligerents become exhausted or where a party wins decisively the other. This creates in his point of view, the understanding of both parties that the war would destroy both sides. (Luttwak, 1999)
Luttwak shows that deaths and scourges in war situations are necessary to seek a diplomatic solution. He says that the war only behind peace, after going through a culminating phase of violence, ending the hopes of a military success. (Luttwak, 1999)
This paper will analyze the concepts presented by Luttwak, based on other scholars of International Relations and warfare strategies. The rhetoric and misconceptions that his theory presented and furthermore that “give war a Chance" has risk characteristics and has large failures from a historical analysis.
Luttwak’s article:
Give War a chance is a work published in 1999, where Luttwak makes serious criticisms of the non-governmental organizations and especially the United Nations interventions during conflicts. Luttwak (1999: 3) states “wars among
Literature critique: Give a change to war
Laura Turrini Brandão ID: 14000100
UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
Introduction
One of the most ideal approaches to understand the motivation of the work "Give War a Chance" is to understand the writer. Edward Luttwak Nicolae, known as a political scientist, American military strategist and historian, published some works describing military and international relations strategies.
Luttwak, has his carrier linked with Military area, acting as consultant to the Secretary of Defense's Office, National Security Council, US State Department, the United States Navy, United States Army, United States Air Force and several Ministries of NATO.
His great experiences in war is even more evident in his article, "Give war a chance" (Luttwak, 1999), arguing in essence that military battles should last longer.
According to Luttwak, peace can only be achieved after all belligerents become exhausted or where a party wins decisively the other. This creates in his point of view, the understanding of both parties that the war would destroy both sides. (Luttwak, 1999)
Luttwak shows that deaths and scourges in war situations are necessary to seek a diplomatic solution. He says that the war only behind peace, after going through a culminating phase of violence, ending the hopes of a military success. (Luttwak, 1999)
This paper will analyze the concepts presented by Luttwak, based on other scholars of International Relations and warfare strategies. The rhetoric and misconceptions that his theory presented and furthermore that “give war a Chance" has risk characteristics and has large failures from a historical analysis.
Luttwak’s article:
Give War a chance is a work published in 1999, where Luttwak makes serious criticisms of the non-governmental organizations and especially the United Nations interventions during conflicts. Luttwak (1999: 3) states “wars among