As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.
It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.
If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
The world relies upon, and America must rely upon, a strong military.
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.
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.
You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.
War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.