In the preceding chapters we looked into the key problems of the Marxist-Leninist teaching on war and the army—investigated war as a socio-political phenomenon, the conditions and causes for the emergence of wars, especially in the contemporary epoch, the laws governing the emergence and development of the armed forces set up by classes and states for waging wars, and some other probjems. But these questions do not exhaust the subjectmatter of the teaching about war and the army. The Marxist-Leninist teaching makes a theoretical analysis also of the dependence of the course and outcome of wars on ecgnomic and other social conditions, reveals the main regularities underlying the formation of the military might of states and the combat power of their armies. The theoretical and practical solution of the last group of questions is of great political and military importance.