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