ELEMENTS OF NATIONAL POWER

Elements or  attributes of national power have  been  described as ‘those  qualities which distinguish the power  and  capabilities of one state from another”.¹⁰  based on this,  two  broad categories are delineated namely  tangible  and  intangible categories or element. The  tangible elements, that  is those that can be “assessed in quantitative  terms”, including  geography,  raw  materials, natural resource endowments, population and technological know-how . 

Some commendation include political stability and military/industrial capabilities  as tangible

attributes of a state’s  power. ¹¹ while military capability and industrial capacity can be subsumed within  technological know –how, it would be difficult to subject   political stability to any quantitative assessment as a tangible  element  of state or national  power.

            Ideologies, national morale and leadership are identified as intangible elements of national power,  while it may be difficult  for  us to  enter upon a detailed analysis of the  various elements are  highlighted above,  due essentially to the  fact that they have been sufficiently dealt with in the  literatures,¹²  and  for space constraints, we must not fail to  point out the fact that a close observation of these so

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