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Says former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, "Strategic war is so obviously catastrophic to all engaged in it that it is only under enormous political stress, provocation and escalation-probably from lower levels of conflict??? choices. it has any chance of happening." Adds James Schlesinger, "A nuclear war would probably get started only by miscalculation...
...fact, sociobiologists believe, conflict???both in the family and with outsiders?is the essence of life. But they do not think that man is at the mercy of an irresistible aggressive instinct, as Lorenz (On Aggression) and Author Robert Ardrey (The Territorial Imperative) insisted in their popular books more than a decade ago. For sociobiologists the trick in becoming an evolutionary winner is to hit just the right level of aggression. Too little, and the organism may be muscled out by competitors. Too much, and it may die in battle without reproducing, or use up time and energy in fighting...
...Pentagon papers controversy has severely damaged the mutual willingness of press and Government?inherently in conflict???to maintain a working relationship with each other. The fact that for the first time the difference had to be resolved by the Supreme Court indicates a breach that threatens the orderly processes of a democratic society. Regardless of the legal issues, the newspapers saw a higher morality in exposing the secret history of decisions that had led to a dangerously unpopular public policy. Appeal to a higher morality by an individual or an organization is often necessary?and always dangerous. No government...
...post in Saigon, he advised the JCS: "No sophisticated psychological approach is necessary to attract the country people to the GVN [Government of Viet Nam, Saigon] at this time. The assurance of a reasonably secure life is all that is necessary." That assurance was at the core of the conflict???and has still not been wholly achieved...
...modern weapon, containing multiple warheads capable of individual targeting (the MIRV missile), will be operational in about two years. Russia is also working on a MIRV. In the category of warheads available for use in what the military call a "wargasm"?a ghastly coinage meaning a sudden, total conflict???the Pentagon reported only last month that the U.S. leads...