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There is a very significant body of history related to resources and strategy which pre-dates the industrial era, and a very extensive study could be made of this. However, the development of industrial economies and the rise of production-intensive ‘mobilization warfare’ brought about significant qualitative changes in the relationship between resources and strategy.1 For this reason, the pre-industrial experience is less promising as a historical basis for exploring contemporary resource security issues. By way of prelude, however, it would be useful briefly to review some of the more prominent examples from this earlier history.
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Lesser, I.O. (1989). Resources and Strategy to 1914. In: Resources and Strategy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10259-4_2
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