INTRODUCTION 4 “I am reporting to you”: D. Hoffman 2009, p. 11. 5 You may not be: The phrase is regularly attributed to Trotsky but might in fact be just a mistranslation of a paraphrase of a letter he wrote to Albert Goldman in June 1940 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Misattributed). 6 “War!/Huh, good God”: Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, “War” (1969). Whitfield and Strong originally wrote the song for the Temptations, who recorded it on their 1970 album Psychedelic Shack but never released it as a single. Edwin Starr rerecorded it later in 1970 and turned it into a number one hit. 7 peace for our time: Neville Chamberlain, speech from 10 Downing Street, September 30, 1938, reported in the Times, October 1, 1938, www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/archive/. 8 “Lord knows, there’s got to be a better way”: Whitfield and Strong, “War.” 10 “a noncontradictory linear logic”: Luttwak 2001, p. 2. 11 “war is always”: Liddell Hart 1967, p.
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