This book is a collection of eight essays on politics and defense
written over the past quarter of a century. What particularly
unifies them is the distinction between the military and police (or
punitive) uses of force and implication of each for preservation of
moderate political practices and skill in the use of armed force.
The various essays illustrate these conceptual points by
examination of the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War, U.S.
nuclear strategy and current 'RMA' and counter-insurgency
doctrines, among others. The essays collectively advance the view
that even in the age of nuclear weapons and 'war amongst the
people, ' the punitive threat and use of armed force is incapable
of maintaining control over a relatively equal force. It can only
be effective where there is massive superiority of the means of
armed force concentrated in one political authority. Also included
is an article on Clausewitz by a senior army officer (the author's
father) that supports the conceptual and practical distinction
between the military and police uses of armed force
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