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...Social Order’, ‘Military/Civilian Relationship’ and ‘Economic Prosperity’. Each of these leads onto ‘Achievement of Military Goals’.] Figure 12 The force-multiplier argument This force-multiplier argument parallels the economic justification for rebuilding Notre-Dame mentioned in Week 1, Section 2.3. Both arguments hang on the observation that sometimes, if...

...social harmony’ (Stobart, 2013, p. 27). Thomas Turino, writing of the flute music in an Aymara Indigenous community in southern Peru, describes a ‘dense unison’ in which some musicians play slightly sharp or slightly flat of one another (1989, p. 12). The result is musical notes that have ‘a “fuzzy” aura … in contrast to a “clear” or “sharp” sound’...

...social norms. They can be there to help us articulate fears of the other, whoever the other might be. And what a surprise the other tends to be women, people of colour, people who aren’t like us in terms of religious background, whatever that might be. And that then becomes in its turn because the other has become monsterised-- monsterises the other, and then that sort...