The Nexus Conundrum: Interplay between Military Intelligence and Corporate Forces in Tomorrow's Battles

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Authors: Antoine Renaux
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Abstract

“ At the time of the emergence of the early nation states, the births of most of them were assisted by blood-and-iron warfare. In the same way, during the transition of nation states to globalization, there is no way to avoid collisions between enormous interest blocs. What is different is that the means that we have today to untie the ‘Gordian Knot’ are not merely swords, and because of this we no longer have to be like our ancestors who invariably saw resolution by armed force as the last court of appeals. Any of the political, economic, or diplomatic means now has sufficient strength to supplant military means. However, mankind has no reason at all to be gratified by this, because what we have done is nothing more than substitute bloodless warfare for bloody warfare as much as possible.”

Fields of Study & Subjects

Intelligence Security War Strategy International Relations and Foreign Policy Defense Military and Policy Studies

Publication details

Journal / source
Routledge eBooks
Pages
151–166
Publication date
13 March 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Book chapter