Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!cca!inmet!janw From: janw@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Aggression not cost effective? Message-ID: <28200133@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 17:59:00 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.28200133 Posted: Sun Sep 29 17:59:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 04:40:21 EDT References: <135@mck-csc.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:mck-csc:-13500:inmet:28200133:000:666 Nf-From: inmet!janw Sep 29 17:59:00 1985 [Bernie Gunther : bmg@mck-csc ] > If you look backto the 100 Year War, Gustas Adolfus > (sp?) had a very interesting way of paying his troups. > ... "Troops, you pay is inside > that town. Go for it." He did not loose money nor very many battles. 30 Year War , Gustavus Adolphus. In his time, this was quite usual. In our time, it wouldn't work : costs of war have risen out of all proportion with possible loot. On the flip side, not all gains are pecuniary. Therefore, in our time, serious wars are likely to be started or provoked only by governments that are not commercially motivated. "Bourgeois democracies" are thus doubly exempted. Jan Wasilewsky