SELF RELIANCE lective, national, local by making it less susceptible to import/ export manipulations, more able to withstand pressure. • (12) Through SR the military defense capabiflty of the country increases. A decentralized country with many units capable of sustaining themselves in times of crisls, meaning not only producting their own food and other essential commodlties but also their own leadership and guidance and will to resist, ls a much less vulnerable country. Vulnerability being one of the key {and therefore least analyzed) parameters of any military balance makes some countries virtually indefenslble today, Japan being an extreme example because of its very high import/ export dependency and heavy concentration of all kinds of institutions for the production of- goods and decisions along the Tokyo-Osaka line. ln a country where the economy is organized according to the principles of local self-reliance there ls little or no domino effect to be obtained by knocking out a center, e.g. the capital (which often is the political/military/economic/ cultural/structural/communicative capital ail in one). A SR country would have to be conquered part by part, but these parts will have much higher capacity to organize para-military, gllerrilla-type resistance as well as non-milltary forms of defense even after an occupation has taken place. Kriowledge of this may deter effectively a would-be attacker; as it may have done both in the US/Cuba and the Soviet Union/China cases. A country knowing its own invulnerability to be high may also be less tempted to enter into pre-emptive milltary adventures, threatenlng postures, military encirclernent through allianceformation and basis and "forward defense lines" (ln order to have the flghting take place far away from one's own vulnerable homeland) ..:....and, consequently, become a much less aggressive country. ln other words, just as there ls a basic compatibility between capitalistic growth and modern hierarchical, technocratie military organlzation there is also a basic compatibility between self-reliance as the basic mode of production and paramilitary/guerrilla/satyagraha forms of defense whereby the clvilian population is mobilized and becomes less vulnerable and less clientelized through dependence on vertical mllftary organizations that in turn depend on Center countrles for supplies of military hardware and software through hlerarchlcal "alliance" systems. , (13) Through SR as a basic approach today's Center and Periphery are brought on a more equa/ footing. The word-palr s
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