Real Peace

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In this terse, closely argued book about geopolitical strategy, Richárd Nixon asserts that while the tools of modern warfare have made war a practical impossibility, our differences with the Soviet Union remain profound, irreconcilable, and potentially deadly. How we can navigate between the impossible and the irreconcilable and establish a real, lasting peace is the sum and substance of the former Presidents message. First the author debunks what he calls the myths of peace, chimeras such as disarmament, peace-through-trade, personal friendships between leaders, and world government schemes. President Nixon says that such policies - pursued by themselves - have never averted war, and that we court disaster by pretending that they will now. Then he describes the key that can unlock the door to peace: "hard-headed detente," a pragmatic mixture of detente and deterrence that encompasses the fali rangé of political and economic relations between East and West. He shows how we can use... Tovább

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In this terse, closely argued book about geopolitical strategy, Richárd Nixon asserts that while the tools of modern warfare have made war a practical impossibility, our differences with the Soviet Union remain profound, irreconcilable, and potentially deadly. How we can navigate between the impossible and the irreconcilable and establish a real, lasting peace is the sum and substance of the former Presidents message. First the author debunks what he calls the myths of peace, chimeras such as disarmament, peace-through-trade, personal friendships between leaders, and world government schemes. President Nixon says that such policies - pursued by themselves - have never averted war, and that we court disaster by pretending that they will now. Then he describes the key that can unlock the door to peace: "hard-headed detente," a pragmatic mixture of detente and deterrence that encompasses the fali rangé of political and economic relations between East and West. He shows how we can use summitry, economic power and other means to deter Soviet misbehavior and at the same time reduce the chances of world war. He enumerates the six essential qualities any effective arms control agreement must have and describes the concept of linkage - the idea that Soviet actions in one area should affect our dealings with them in other areas. President Nixon argues that while the Soviets Vissza