David, Goliath and Modern Warfare

The biblical story of David leads to several conclusions about the development of weapons and the nature of warfare.

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Jacek Bartosiak
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Most of us know the story of David and Goliath, but few know what the story can teach us about modern warfare. The Philistines’ strategy was to disarm the Hebrews by destroying their metallurgical works. This prevented the Hebrews from producing their own modern weapons and made them dependent on the Philistines for civilian production, […]

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Jacek Bartosiak
Jacek Bartosiak
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/author/jbartosiak/
Jacek Bartosiak is an expert in geopolitics and geostrategy. He is founder and owner of Strategy & Future. Dr. Bartosiak is the author of three books: Pacific and Eurasia: About the war (2016), dealing with the upcoming rivalry of great powers in Eurasia and about the potential war in the western Pacific; The Commonwealth between land and sea: On war and peace (2018), on the geostrategic situation of Poland and Europe in the era of rivalry between powers in Eurasia; and The Past is a Prologue on geopolitical changes in the modern world. In addition he is Director of the War Games and Simulation Program of the Pulaski Foundation; Senior Fellow at The Potomac Foundation in Washington, co-founder of "Play of Battle", which prepares military simulations; associate of the New Confederation and the New Generation Warfare Center in Washington; member of the advisory team of the Government Plenipotentiary for Central Communication Port (2017-2018), president of the board of the company Centralny Port Komunikacyjny Sp. z o. o. (2018–2019). Dr. Bartosiak speaks at conferences on the strategic situation in Central and Eastern Europe, The Western Pacific and Asia. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw, and is a managing partner at a law firm dealing with business services since 2004.

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