Catachresis, international politics and military power

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explain how intangible factors
interfere with military power employment. In order to
achieve this purpose, discourse analysis was brought as
a theory and method to understand the exercise of power
and politics in military issues. Throughout the article, it
was shown that military power matters, but not for all
purposes. The division of international politics into issue-
structures provides a field to apply discourse analysis and
to understand issues related to the use of military power.