The War Game
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The War Game

Studies of the New Civilian Militarists

  1. 213 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The War Game

Studies of the New Civilian Militarists

About this book

War gaming has become a characteristic feature of modern life. From amateur clubs to professional academicians playing the war game in the company of military circles, we have come up against the phenomenon of the "robotization" of human life. Irving Louis Horowitz argues that those who protest the idea that war is a game do so on moral grounds that leave unanswered tough questions: What is the alternative to playing the game? What will become of us if we allow the opponent to become the better "player" in an all-or-nothing game of extinction?

Horowitz provides answers in a logical manner while focusing on facts and ethical alternatives to risky ethics. The work is divided into three sections: The New Civilian Militarists, Thermonuclear Peace and Its Political Equivalents, and General Theory of Conflict and Conflict Resolution. Included are such topics as arms, policies, and games; morals, missiles, and militarism; and conflict, consensus, and cooperation.

Horowitz concludes that it is time to register the fact that the basic option to destructive uses of science is not traditional morality, but better science a science of survival. With a new introduction by Howard Schneiderman along with a major essay and other materials not included in the original edition, this classic work is a worthy contribution to intellectual debate in the twenty-first century and a must read for military strategists, sociologists, and historians.

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Subject Index
absolutism, 61, 101
administrative fiat, 51–53, 55
Africa, 111, 112
aggression, 6, 10, 30, 52, 102, 107, 123, 168
Air Defense Command (ADC), 4
Air Force, 170
American Civil War, 106
American Friends Service Committee, 95, 149
American military posture, 3, 23
annihilation, 11, 15–16, 18, 29–30, 32, 43, 52, 57, 59, 73, 88–90, 92–93, 100, 105, 111, 116, 118, 120–121, 126, 139, 158, 161, 163
game of, 30
scientific, 88, 105
and warfare, 11, 15, 116, 118
anomie, 108, 138
antimilitarism, 33, 36, 38, 40–42, 44–45
of the left, 40–41
antimilitaristic posture, 40
armed forces, 50, 52
arms control, 5–11, 108, 123, 173
arms escalation, 10, 16, 29, 43, 115
arms policy, 6, 79
arms race, 6, 12, 19, 22, 27–28, 30, 44, 56, 85, 88, 94, 108, 112, 121, 126–127, 152
bi-polar, 6
and de-escalation, 6, 28, 127
escalation of, 79, 94
arms reduction, 23, 30–31
army, 3, 62, 158, 170
Asia, 50, 53–54, 82, 111–112
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 36
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Conflagration and Calculation: The War Game Reconsidered
  7. Preface
  8. I The New Civilian Militarists
  9. II Thermonuclear Peace and Its Political Equivalents
  10. III General Theory of Conflict and Conflict Resolution
  11. Games, Strategies, and Peace: A Symposium on Deterrence
  12. Strategies of War and Principles of Peace
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Index