For millennia, the world’s people have been kidding themselves about national security.
Worried about the survival of their nation in a world of self-interested, sometimes aggressive nations, people have armed and prepared themselves for war. Only military strength, they have assumed, would fend off or defeat a military attack on their nation.
And a case can be made for this assumption, for not all nations―and not all people―are willing to deal peacefully or justly with their neighbors.
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