MILOEK
Militärökonomische Forschung und Lehre
Research and Courses in Economics of Defense
E
Online: * August 2012
Fields of Research I: Embedding the Swiss Army
in its Environment
in its Environment
Military performance depends on an army’s (organizational) capability to adapt to the specific conditions of its own society and those of the (potential) adversary: Such determinants represent threat levels, resources available, social and economic culture, international integration etc. Consequently, it is to be expected that the (tailored) organizational structures of the Swiss Army differ in comparison to the Federal German Forces. This basic insight leads to the following research questions:
|
n
|
When do societies start to become a threat to other societies? As already pointed out, the economics of defense focusses on the motive of resource acquisition by violent means. According to this economic perspective, power stands for the capability to wield a specific amount of resources. And ideologies or even religions serve as approaches to legitimize the preference for certain allocation mechanisms or to justify actual distributions.
|
forward
back
First Version: September 2012
This Version: October 2012