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ON THE USES OF MILITARY POWER IN THE NUCLEAR AGE. By Klaus Knorr. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1966, pp. 185.)
Dr. Knorr is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center of International Studies, Princeton University. He is the author of The War Potential of Nations (1956) and NATO and American Security (1959).
This book examines trends discernible in the nature of military conflict, in political attitudes toward war as a method for settling disputes, and also trends affecting the place of military power in international relations and the utility of war and armed forces. The author believes that these conditions, and the changes they display, have a major bearing on the structure and functioning of the international systems. In exploring some of the recent changes in the nature, function, and value of military power in international relations, Professor Knorr discusses trends in the value which nations derive, in their international relationships, from the possession and use of military forces, both nuclear and non-nuclear. From this point, he suggests that territorial conquest and the furtherance of economic benefits by military means have generally diminished in appeal. He then examines the various costs and disadvantages that now attend the use of military power.
The writer does not offer a general theory of military power, as...