The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
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War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
The principal cause of war is war itself.
It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
Wars have economies. And I don't mean financial economies, although that's often part of it. Why do people continue fighting these wars? There are financial incentives.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
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