Economic Power: Security, Military and Political Resource

Economic power impacts all other forms of power, primarily military and political. Moreover, history of civilizations is actually history of interrupted wars. It seems, respectively, that quest for wealth, money and life quality has been the engine of technological, military and historical processes. Economic wealth and in particular quest for it (re)shaped technological and military power but also the war and its forms. Capitalism as the system enabled respective even more as it networks science, industry and military technology. The economy (re)shapes technology and research while they impact advances in technology and trade which form political-military power. Consequentially, aforementioned (re)shapes also the notion, context as well as security itself. Economy should be seen as the security resource in both directions.