War has provided both ancient and modern

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The root of all obstensible differences of national interest lie the dynamic requirements of the war system itself for periodic armed conflict. Readiness for war characterizes contemporary social systems more broadly than their economic and political structures...Economic analyses of the anticipated problems of transition to peace have not recognized the broad pre-eminence of war in the definition of social systems.

The...real situation of conversion to...peace...can be developed only from the premise of full understanding of the nature of the war system it proposes to abolish, which in turn presupposes detailed comprehension of the functions the war system performs for society. It will require the construction of a detailed and feasible system of phone number list substitutes for those functions that are necessary to the stability and survival of human societies...”

When this was first published our nation and its adversaries were well defined. There was a “cold war” to bind us together with “us” against “them” worldview. In this age of globalism, trade treaties, the WTO, the G-8, the IMF, the World Bank and the UN have begun to supercede national sovereignty.

societies with a dependable system for stabilizing and controlling national economies. No alternate method of control has yet been tested in a complex modern economy that has shown itself remotely comparable in scope or effectiveness. The permanent possibility of war is the foundation for stable government; it supplies the basis for general acceptance of political authority. It has enabled societies to maintain necessary class distinctions, and it has ensured the subordination of the citizen to the state.