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"War and Sowell" with Victor Davis Hanson

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

CHAPTER

Preventing Wars: Negotiations vs Military Strength

This chapter discusses the different approaches to preventing wars and contrasts the intellectual vision of relying on international negotiations and disarmament agreements with the tragic vision that sees military strength as the key to deterrence. It also highlights historical agreements and the ironic signing of agreements by Hitler with countries he planned to conquer.

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