"Neomercantilist War" which analyses the use of military force to protect a strategically vital economic resource (such as Gulf oil … neomercantilism and the concept of Neomercantilist War do offer a sound explanation of American military involvement in the Gulf … explanation to the American military involvement in the Persian Gulf. Accordingly, this paper also proposes the concept of …

’s ability to provide such protection ultimately rests on its power to wage war. Governments therefore have tended to devote more … resources to war than to anything else. Indeed, prior to the advent of the modern welfare State, they usually spent more on war … than on all other things combined. Governments were essentially war making institutions that did a few other things on the …