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Broken-backed war theory

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The "broken-back" war notion is obsolete not only because of the possibility of mutual devastation but even more because it is so very unlikely that the forces of both sides would become attrited in even roughly the same way. One side is likely to get a rather commanding advantage and exploit this
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Do current predictions on the nature of future warfare exhaust not only all possible, but all likely, contingencies? It can be granted that a long-drawn-out and massive war conducted with conventional, by which I mean modernized but nonatomic, weapons, is so unlikely to occur that it may be safely
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Klaus Knorr purported that in a broken-backed war scenario, only military weapons and vehicles on hand prior to the sustained hostilities would be of use, as the economic potential of both sides would be, at least in theory, utterly shattered:
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neglected as a contingency. There definitely is no future for World War II. It can also be granted that, once unlimited thermonuclear war has broken out, there is no economic war potential to be mobilized for its conduct.
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argued that this form of conflict may be impractical simply because it is almost impossible to plan for. His writings on the subject came before the advent of
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is about an alternate history where world powers scramble for resources after the Cuban Missile Crisis resulted in an initial nuclear exchange.
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doctrine, and during a time of nuclear plenty, when it was safe to assume that a nuclear exchange would render a nation's industry useless.
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Even a broken-backed war would have to be fought overwhelmingly, if not entirely, with munitions on hand at the start of the fighting.
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forces are still fighting for a decisive victory in Europe and elsewhere with dwindling conventional arms and munitions.
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lead to force the other side to choose between surrender and the physical destruction of its capability to continue.
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in 1984 entails a broken-backed war; in the aftermath of a nuclear exchange in 1997, by 2000,
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Broken-backed war theory was first formally elaborated on in the 1952 British
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State of Doom: Bernard Brodie, The Bomb, and the Birth of the Bipolar World
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Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
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Nuclear Weapons and Changing Strategic Outlooks; Bernard Brodie, 1956
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Form of conflict that could happen after a massive nuclear exchange
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IMPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN TOTAL WAR; Bernard Brodie, 1957
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massive nuclear exchange
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History
Prehistoric
Ancient
Post-classical
castles
Early modern
pike and shot
napoleonic
Late modern
industrial
fourth-gen
Military
Organization
Command and control
Defense ministry
Army
Navy
Air force
Marines
Coast guard
Space force
Reserves
Regular
Irregular
Ranks
Standing army

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