Geoffrey Blainey on War
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“No wars are unintended or 'accidental'. What is often unintended is the length and bloodiness of the war.”
“War and peace are not separate compartments. Peace depends on threats and force; often peace is the crystallisation of past force.”
“It is the problem of accurately measuring the relative power of nations which goes far to explain why wars occur. War is a dispute about the measurement of power. War marks the choice of a new set of weights and measures.”