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European Capitalism's Reserve Army
Monthly Review, 1975In For the Revision of the Party Program Lenin speaks of the "measureless and shameless" exploitation of foreign workers from less developed countries as "especially characteristic" of imperialism. Today some eleven million people from the underdeveloped nations of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean are living and working in the industrialized ...
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The Decline of the European Mass Armies
2006Defense conversion was from the military point of view perceived for a long time as a slogan of peace activists. During the Cold War it was seen as a strange and threatening idea to the military and as a desirable goal for those movements, which stressed human needs other than military security.
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European Mercenaries in the Indian Armies
Studies in History, 2011The eclipse of Mughal power as the central authority began from the second half of the seventeenth century. By the time of the eighteenth century, and particularly from its second half, the local potentates began to empower themselves to defend as well as to expand their power. For this, they resorted to strengthen their armed forces.
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European armies and limited war
2013Since the industrialisation of Europe in the late nineteenth century, European armies have been able to trade firepower for manpower. The mass production of repeating weapons has made the battlefield more lethal, but it has also required fewer men proportionately to do the killing.
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European Armies and the Conduct of War.
Military Affairs, 1984Claude C. Sturgill, Hew Strachan
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