ABSTRACT
Military doctrine must deal extremely seriously with economic problems, in case strategy might have to operate under the conditions of encirclement of a given state. Strategists must simultaneously be political scientists. They must penetrate deeply into the internal life of the state and determine the economic strength of their country and all other countries, and, using the basis that strategy and economics provide for the country, they must determine all the possibilities that would befall the state in a future war. In order that the national masses know what would be required of them in a future war, what sacrifices they would have to make at the battle front, they must know the nature of the forthcoming struggle, and they must be prepared for it. People have the full right to conclude that the economic element as a factor of strategy will take a central position in the relationships defining a state's readiness for war.
