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Indeed, weapons often seem to dictate strategy, rather than the reverse. Critics cite Navy Secretary Lehman's goal of building a 600-ship Navy. "What is termed strategy is a mere collection of justifications for more ships," says Steven Canby in his paper Military Reform and the Art of War. At the core of the naval building plan are two new $3.5 billion nuclear aircraft carriers, the heart's desire of every admiral, and the supporting ships they require. Advances in missile warfare make these surface ships far more vulnerable. Retired Admiral Hyman Rickover has estimated that carriers...
...were equipped with the very finest weapons, or at least ones that could do the job. But all too often the gold-plated armaments bring embarrassingly small improvements in fighting capability. Sometimes, in fact, older, simpler and vastly cheaper weapons work as well or better. Military reformers cite numerous examples. Here are four...
...side virtues of the commission's work is that it elevates the principle of indirect responsibility to international cognizance. The jurists at the Nuremberg trials went to great lengths to cite positive acts, "crimes against humanity." No one was charged with just standing by. The difference in the Israeli report (apart from its not being a court verdict) is that at Nuremberg a victor was judging a fallen enemy, whereas here the accused were called to account by their own people...
That stunning conclusion drew immediate attacks. Critics, and they are legion, cite a variety of defects: Ehrlich did not compare the effectiveness of the death penalty with that of particular prison terms; his formula does not work if the years between 1965 and 1969 are omitted; and in accounting for the increase in homicides during the '60s, he neglects the possible influences of racial unrest, the Viet Nam War, a loosening of moral standards and increased handgun ownership...
...roots of language, he writes. "It is possible that some selection pressure for its emergence came from sexual selection operating on the courtship behavior of males that is to put it bluntly, the male who talked the best line got the girl. "But Konner does not just cite scores of scientists and theories to make his points, somehow Shakespeare. Henry James Wallace Stevens, U.S. Eliot, Dante, Marx, Engels, and others find their way into his argument and are at times, as important and appropriate as the neuro anatomists and physiological psychologists he cites so often, indeed almost endlessly...