The Importance of Understanding the Inevitability of War

There's enough in history to cause us to conclude by God, these things can push in a structural direction. When you have an established global power faced with a rising power in a contest for hegemony then a number of things happen. And those of us who've looked at the internal machinations in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Petersburg, and London understand how that Thucydides in the principal was shaping so much of the high politics of the various chancellaries of Europe. So Graham's great value added is to point to these forces. But equally, the job of politics and statesmanship is to understand that those forces are at work and are row as hard as possible in the reverse direction