c. War, Organization, Power

c. War, Organization, Power

 

As an organization carries out war activities, the rules among the members change and power operates soon. Therefore, the three key words to understand politics are ㉠war, ㉡organization, and ㉢power. The following diagram shows the tripartite relationship intuitively. Among the members of the organization, the person who can decide more rules (the person in the center of the diagram) is the "power holder".

 

[Diag.2.A.4] The relationship between war, organization, and power

 

The relationship between the three key words is as follows: that is, war arises in the struggle for survival, and organizations are created in order to survive in war, and power is established to maintain the organization. Therefore, power is the ability to determine and conduct war, and "the ultimate test of power is accomplished through war." Therefore, if a political problem arises as a problem of power, it is fundamentally a problem of the means of war, and in the context of national politics, this is directly a problem of military power. In 68 A.D., the ruler of Rome, Nero, lost the trust of his soldiers and was toppled by a coup d'état. As a result, civil war broke out, and at the end of it, the emperor who gained power, Vespasianus, was also a military man. The reason why the king signed the Magna Carta in England in the 13th century was because of the military power of the nobility. When such changes occur in state power, it is immediately determined by who can control the military power, which is the ultimate means of brute force.