Understanding The Nature Of Conflict Leads To

The Grim Fact Is That We Prepare For War Like Precocious Giants, And For Peace Like Retarded Pygmies.

Today The Predatory State, Or The Predatory Group Of States, With Power Of Total Destruction, Is No More To Be Tolerated Than The Predatory Individual.

Until The Last Great War, A General Expectation Of Material Improvement Was An Idea Peculiar To Western Man. Now War And Its Aftermath Have Made Economic And Social Progress A Political Imperative In Every Quarter Of The Globe.

Every State Has Not Only The Right But The Duty To Make Adequate Provision For Its Own Defense In The Way It Thinks Best, Providing It Does Not Do So At The Expense Of Any Other State.

No State, Furthermore, Unless It Has Aggressive Military Designs Such As Those Which Consumed Nazi Leaders In The Thirties, Is Likely To Divert To Defense Any More Of Its Resources And Wealth And Energy Than Seems Necessary.