…control and make them like ourselves? To questions of this kind, the final answer has always been war. War, said Clausewitz, is not merely a political act. It is a real political instrument, a continuation, of previous political relationships, a continuation…

…continuation, of previous political relationships, a continuation of policy by other means. This was true enough in the 1820s, when Clausewitz wrote his famous treatise, and it continued to be more or less true until 1945. Now pretty obviously nuclear…

…bacterial aerosols, and the laser, that highly promising latest addition to the world's military arsenals, have given the lie to Clausewitz. All-out war with modern weapons is no longer a continuation of previous policy. It is a complete and irreversible…