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The End of War

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The End of War

Jim Freeman
Feb 23, 2008
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Not the end of conflict, certainly not the end of fighting . . . but it is worth considering that as we blindly multiply our efforts toward a supremacy-gap between ourselves and the rest of the world in military hardware, the enemy is dissolving before our eyes. What can we possibly be thinking? More to the point, what can the rest of the world possibly think we are thinking?

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Not the end of conflict, certainly not the end of fighting . . . but it is worth considering that as we blindly multiply our efforts toward a supremacy-gap between ourselves and the rest of the world in military hardware, the enemy is dissolving before our eyes. What can we possibly be thinking? More to the point, what can the rest of the world possibly think we are thinking?

Since the end of the Cold War arms race, lacking any credible opponent, we have created an overheated race with ourselves.

Since Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man, it’s been a dicey thing to forecast the end of anything. St…

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