ABSTRACT
Development processes are most likely to produce, whether under capitalism or under socialism, transition dynamics from a rural to an urban type of society, on to the maturity of the urban type of society. Progress in industrialization first implies a growth in national productive power. Industrialization is most likely to provide countries with techniques for war management because the military industries and communication techniques are fully developed by dynamics of war and peace. In democratized and industrialized societies, war in an urban type of society will lead to the expansion of militarily negative factors. Democratization processes that are realized ultimately as mass democracy have contributed to the growth of centralized bureaucratic institutions and military organizations, which are the institutional prerequisites of military mobilization. The multipolarization of society, and therefore the articulation of politics, will, in fact, make the image of "total war" more and more unrealistic.
