The Validity of Limited Objectives

I am going to take as my topic, The Validity of Limited Objectives. The century between Waterloo and Serajevo saw the most promising evidences of progress toward a peaceful world of any period in modern history

Basic Factors Influencing Our Strategy

Basic strategy must be determined by a perpetual remem­brance that the world is round. Like most other important observa­tions this may be considered obvious, but its realization in the ab­stract and its application in the concrete are two different things

Political Factors in National Strategy

Do political relations between different peoples and governments cease when the exchange of diplomatic notes is interrupted? If political activity were sus­pended, military victory would be utterly futile. For the political alms are the end; the war is the means, and the means can never be conceived without the end

Policy in Foreign Affairs

In an attempt to do something of that kind I wish to discuss what we really mean by policy in foreign affairs. At the outset we are faced with a problem in semantics. The language of diplomacy, at least until the Russians revised international manners, has been formal in style and notable for understatement. It is not infrequently equivocal in expression

The Ideology of the West

My topic is The Ideology of the West, It was assigned me by Admiral Conolly, and proved to be difficult, From some points of view it might, in the current climate of opinion, be thought to be a dangerous topic

Foreign Affairs An American Quarterly Review

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