1939 Economic
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Clearly, economic power was never the only influence upon military effectiveness, even in the mechanized, total war of 1939–1945; economics, to paraphrase Clausewitz, stood in about the same relationship to combat as the craft of the swordsmith to the art of fencing.
chapter: “The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force”