Must We Arm?: A Debate on the Question: Resolved, That the Security of the Nation Requires an Increase of the Military Force of the United States; ... Auspices of the Rand School of Social Science - Softcover

Gardner, Augustus P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331170990 ISBN 13: 9781331170990

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Must We Arm?: A Debate on the Question: Resolved, That the Security of the Nation Requires an Increase of the Military Force of the United States; Held in Carnegie Hall New York, April 2, 1915, Under the Auspices of the Rand School of Social Science

Is all that irrevocably past? Is it unavoidable that the United States henceforth play the role of what is technically called a Great Power?

At the close of the century we entered upon a new course. How far it was contemplated, 'how far understood, by our statesmen and financiers, may be open to question. So far as the masses were con cerned, it. Was an unpremeditated, an unforeseen, an involuntary step. We woke up, one Mav morning, to find our Republic the mistress of an island empire six thousand miles away and courted or looked on askance by all the powers which had regarded the Orient as their undivided estate.

Much has happened since than - all in logical sequence. For one thing, in less than twenty years we have almost quintupled. Our mili tary and naval expenditures. They now amount to more than quarter of a billion dollars yearly, exclusive of pensions and the cost of the state militia.

The money itself is not the main consideration. Three hundred millions of dollars a year is well worth mentioning on its own account, but the figures are important chiefly as an index to the change in our policy, our ideals, perhaps our destiny. The staggering thing is to learn, now our attention is called to it, that after all we have only a third-rate or fourth-rate navy and perhaps a tenth-rate army.

Do we wish to advance in this direction, to strain every nerve, to make every sacrifice that may be called for, in order to catch up and keep up with the nations who have started ahead of us on this path? Or do we wish to follow quite another course than that which is now being illustrated in Europe? It is either to go on with a will - to double our navy and twice double our army at once, and then to go on doubling both every five or six years - and, in the bargain, to enter into offensive and defensive alliances and stand ready to make other people's quarrels our own - or else to resolve in time that we will avoid war by avoiding its causes.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1331170990
• ISBN 13: 9781331170990
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 58
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