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Sunday, August 10, 2003

The Coming Anarchy

When I asked Pentagon officials about the nature of war in the twenty-first century, the answer I frequently got was 'Read Van Creveld.' The top brass are enamored of this historian not because his writings justify their existence but, rather, the opposite: Van Creveld warns them that huge state military machines like the Pentagon's are dinosaurs about to go extinct, and that something far more terrible awaits us.
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