Y.M. What is the sole impulse that ever moves a person to do a thing?
O.M. ...the necessity of contenting his own spirit and winning its approval.
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Will wars be fought over water?
Wars of this century will be about water.” This was a comment made in 1999 by Ismail Serageldin, former vice president of the World Bank. Most people will agree that the driving economic force behind today’s wars is oil. A war over water would be a hundred times worse. Gasoline is a luxury, water is a necessity. If there is one cause in the whole world that crosses all social, national, racial, and economic lines, it’s water.
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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last.
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Necessity
Small navies have often struggled amongst themselves for command of the sea, and large ones have been known to use flotillas of small ships to do the same on rivers, lakes, inland waters and coastal seas.
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Necessity
Mahan was clear that ‘As a rule a major operation of war across sea should not be attempted unless naval superiority for an adequate period is probable.’But it is worth emphasising that Mahan is not here talking of ‘absolute’ command, but of
‘working’ command, possibly limited in time, space and extent.
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Kendimi Yehovanın geleceğine bırakıyorum, özgürüm!
Simone Weil’s answer is that we shall be free by ‘obeying necessity’, by making ourselves as docile as the waves in the sea are to the wind that blows them. To do so is to renounce the self, in the sense of the ego, and therefore to be so transformed in ourselves that our soul is opened to the grace of God. Thus when we are able to say ‘Thy will be done’ what we are subject to ceases to be something that thwarts or constrains us, or in any way stands opposed to us. Hence in willingly submitting to it we find ourselves and recover our autonomy. We make what is external to us our own.
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Strategy and strategic thinking
The phrase ‘to support foreign policy’ makes the point that strategy, war and conflict should be designed to accomplish a political objective. This is what justifies strategic action and, as Clausewitz remarked, this is what determines a consequent
conflict’s form and character: War is nothing but a continuation of political endeavour with altered means. I base the whole of strategy on this tenet, and believe that he who refuses to
recognise this necessity does not fully understand what matters. The principle explains the whole history of war, and without it, everything would appear quite absurd.
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Prerequisties
... if the weaker power conducts small war on the high seas against a stronger power then its cruisers must have at least a secure base of operations. This was an absolute necessity for a small sea power which had diverse interests overseas and it needed to be in the waters where that sea traffic was mainly concentrated. The fleet must have fixed station ports as bases of operations for cruisers or squadrons, and to serve as ports for
prizes and a port of refuge for merchant vessels
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