A Revisionist Critique
“War-making is too much dignified if it is told in terms of broad national urges… When nations stumble into war, or when peoples rub their eyes and find they have been dragged into war, there is at some point a psychopathic case. Omit the element of abno
“The notion that you must have war when you have cultural variation, or economic competition, or sectional difference is an unhistorical misconception which it is stupid in historians to promote.” -- James G. Randall, 1940