Abstract
This article traces the role of warfareWarfare in feudalismFeudalism and state-makingState-making as well as commercial and digital capitalismDigital capitalism. It considers the changing character of warfare during different phases of capitalism and suggests that inter-state wars have become more infrequent and shorter. At the same time, capitalism, as the main factor in which warfareWarfare has become embedded, has become technologically more complex and sophisticated. Warfare has become more concealed in social structures and capitalism has developed more virtuous cycles; the dynastic warWar has largely disappeared, but at the same time more corrosive effects have developed. Special attention is paid to the dominance of absolutist armies and their changing role in the transition to commercial capitalism in the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries.
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