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An End to Arms

Walter Millis

出版	Atheneum, 1965
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fslBAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

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"According to Walter Millis, long a student of the political aspects of war, the idea of winning a war has usually been more important that could be won by waging it; never has this been more true than in today's world of super-weaponry. Moreover, significant steps have been taken in the last ten years in the settlement of international dispute by non- military means. It is toward the acceptance of a permanently demilitarized system of world politics that this book directs its inquiry. A brilliantly lucid thinker and writer, Mr. Millis turns his historical eye on the development of the nation-state and its bearing on present struggles: the East-West rivalry, the Sino-Soviet split, Cuba and Latin American revolution, African emergence and the explosive potential of South Africa. A most provocative aspect of this study is the very vocabulary of power politics, the need for redefining words like freedom, democracy, dictatorship, Cold War, even power, before we can carry to its logical conclusion the dawning realization that brute military power is no longer the answer to problems of stress. This is not another book about the techniques of disarmament. Nor does it present any Utopian scheme. Its recommendations are viable ones which suggest a progress from existing conditions (and limitations) to a world situtation, bolstered by an international police force, where problems of continuing power shifts can be handled without resort to massive arms. This is an important and moral book, by one of the significant thinkers of our time" - Publisher.