An Empirical Evaluation of the Offense Defense Balance: Comparing the Influence of Intelligence Capabilities and Systemic Technology on the Ease of Conquest.

• In Event: Determinants of Military Success

Brief Overview

I find that systemic technology has significantly less influence on the ease of conquest as compared with intelligence capabilities, suggesting that intervening phenomena associated with higher levels of conflict are less attributable to the ODB.

Author

• Kristopher Grady, University of Louisville