| Perhaps you have heard about the city councilman or | | | | war. |
| county commissioner in San Francisco who said on | | | | "War is Hell and thus you must bring Hell to your |
| TV in an interview that he did not feel the US needed | | | | enemy before he delivers it to you" - Lance Winslow |
| a military? Many veterans, historians and intellectuals | | | | 2000 |
| could not believe their ears. Perhaps you are one of | | | | Indeed in all practical terms it makes the most sense to |
| them, personally I was appalled. Then to make matters | | | | avoid military conflict to the fullest extent and insure |
| worse the gentleman asked: | | | | open communications lines and human politics to |
| "What has the military done for us in the last five | | | | render win/win situations for all those involved to come |
| years?" | | | | to an understanding which is best for all concerned. |
| I suppose Senator John Kerry would agree with him, | | | | "The best advice for War is not to have one, but if |
| but 95% of the rest of America certainly know better. | | | | you do have one the best advice is to win - |
| You see, as Carl von Clausewitz has in so many | | | | Decisively!" - Lance Winslow 2001 |
| words proclaimed; | | | | We must continually work on shoring up threats and |
| The Leader who fails to protect his civilization from his | | | | develop technology to insure our National Defense and |
| enemy, does so at the expense of his people. | | | | the defense of our allied nations. In Future Periods |
| Advanced defense technologies therefore are | | | | human wars may disappear, but we do not live in |
| paramount to the on-going nature of human societies. It | | | | future periods, we live in the present. It is important that |
| is not good or evil to promote military technologies, for | | | | we get that philosophy straight first and so let's begin |
| it is a given, it just is and those who ignore the | | | | this dialogue with people who understand the reality |
| warnings or history of past periods are sure to repeat | | | | and live somewhere other than San Francisco by the |
| them. This author does not promote the needless | | | | bay. |
| slaughtering of one's own species or attempt to glorify | | | | |