Guns and Butter: Security and the New Global Agenda
Abstract
Not so many years ago, a tailor from New York City visited Rome and took advantage of an opportunity to see the Pope. Upon the tailor's return, his neighbors asked him eagerly, "What did the Pope look like?" To that the tailor replied, "About a 41 regular." All of us, individuals and institutions alike, suffer occasionally from such "tunnel vision." The eminent mathematician turned philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, diagnosed the malady in more scholarly terms as "the fallacy of the single factor analysis." We at the US Army War College are no exception. When we look at foreign affairs, we tend-appropriately in my view-to concentrate our attention on those issues which carry a potential for armed conflict or which clearly impinge on the security of the United States. These issues are generally political disputes over territory or legitimate authority, or economic problems with strategic implications. Yet these issues are but the tip of today's foreign policy iceberg. A host of new problems must now engage our attention. The new issues are perhaps less dramatic, certainly more technical, and not to be resolved by the use or threatened use of military force. They are issues which grow out of the world's coming of age and the shrinkage of the geographic, social, and economic distances which separate nations. Interdependence is the benign label often used to describe this crowded, jostling situation to which mankind has been brought by its dynamic technology and its own dreams.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA593858
Entities
People
- Archer K. Blood
Organizations
- United States Army War College