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A nation's authority over its people "resides in its war powers," including local police to deal with "internal enemies in a military manner."
Military service has a patriotic purpose "that must be maintained for its own sake."
Wars also serve an ecological purpose - "to reduce the consuming population to a level consistent with the survival of the species," but mass destruction is inefficient, and nuclear weapons are indiscriminate, removing physically stronger members important to save.
Because of medical and scientific advances, pestilence no longer can control populations effectively, balancing them with agriculture's potential. As a result, other measures are needed to control "undesirable genetic traits."
An effective political substitute for war requires "alternate enemies....of credible quality and magnitude, if a transition to peace is ever to come about without social disintegration." Most likely, "such a threat will have to be invented."
Other extreme considerations were also reviewed, the report concluding that:
Permanent "war is the foundation for stable government. It supplies the basis for general acceptance of political authority." It lets societies maintain class distinctions, ensuring subordination of citizens to the state, run by elites with "residual war powers," to unleash at their whim. In other words, for militarists and profiteers, war is good, the more the better. Winning doesn't matter, just waging them.
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