“War is not, as is widely assumed, primarily an instrument of policy utilized by nations to extend or defend their expressed political values or their economic interests. On the contrary, it is itself the principal basis of organization on which all modern societies are constructed. The substance of this document may be even more unsettling than its conclusions. For instance: that most medical advances are viewed more as problems than as progress; or that poverty is necessary and desirable; or that standing armies are, among other things social-welfare institutions in exactly the same sense as are old-people’s homes and mental hospitals; or that the probable explanation of “flying saucer” incidents is disposed of in less than a sentence; and that the space program and the controversial antimissile missile and fallout shelter programs are understood to have the spending of vast sums of money, not the advancement of science or national defense, as their principal goals, and that “military” draft policies are only remotely concerned with defense.”