The Causes of WarThe peace that passeth understanding -- Paradise is a bazaar -- Dreams and delusions of a coming war -- While waterbirds fight -- Death-watch and scapegoat wars -- War chests and pulse beats -- A calendar of war -- The abacus of power -- War as an accident -- Aims and arms -- A day that lives in infamy -- Vendetta of the Black Sea -- Long wars -- And shorter wars -- The mystery of wide wars -- Australia's Pacific war -- Myths of the nuclear era -- War, peace and neutrality. |
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... nation can be blamed for a war , and yet war is a relationship between at least two nations and cannot be explained by examining one nation in isolation . Even if , on the contrary , wars can be logically blamed on to one nation ...
... nation can be blamed for a war , and yet war is a relationship between at least two nations and cannot be explained by examining one nation in isolation . Even if , on the contrary , wars can be logically blamed on to one nation ...
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... nations , was often drastically weaker . Negotiations were therefore frustrated because each nation demanded far more than the other was prepared to yield . Likewise the appeal to war was favoured because each side believed that it ...
... nations , was often drastically weaker . Negotiations were therefore frustrated because each nation demanded far more than the other was prepared to yield . Likewise the appeal to war was favoured because each side believed that it ...
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... nation cannot alone be praised as the bringer of peace . Wars end when nations agree that war is an unsatisfactory instrument for solving their dispute ; wars begin when nations agree that peaceful diplomacy is an unsatisfactory in ...
... nation cannot alone be praised as the bringer of peace . Wars end when nations agree that war is an unsatisfactory instrument for solving their dispute ; wars begin when nations agree that peaceful diplomacy is an unsatisfactory in ...
Contents
The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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