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Two Partisans of Wrath

David Limond on philosophies which prefer war to peace.

In 1987 Martin Caedel issued a challenge. In his book Thinking About Peace and War (Oxford Univ. Press) he pointed out that the group of theories which he called ‘Militarism’ had “never been the subject of a major study.” By Militarism, he said, he meant those philosophies claiming that “frequent wars are unavoidable” which they take to be just as well because wars are “positive(ly) good and …. essential for human development ….

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