The Briefing Room
General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: TomSea on August 14, 2018, 12:50:08 am
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A new book reminds us (again) that if you want peace, prepare for war |
By George F. Will
Scholars have already debated for decades, and will debate for centuries, the role U.S. policies -- military, diplomatic, economic -- played in bringing the Cold War to endgame and the Soviet Union to extinction.
One milestone was Ronald Reagan's 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative proposal, a technological challenge that could not be met by a Soviet economy already buckling under the combined weight of military spending and socialism's ignorance.
But before SDI there was Ocean Venture '81, initiated by Reagan as president-elect.
Continued at: https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2018/08/a_new_book_reminds_us_again_th.html (https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2018/08/a_new_book_reminds_us_again_th.html)
GW is in the doghouse with a lot of us but this seems pretty straightforward and sounds like time-tested advice.