War and Policy Essays (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from War and Policy Essays Preface speeches to that of tactics, strategy, and military history. But after many years and a long circuit it brought me back, with a new point of view, to British public affairs, for it seemed that war is a form of political action, the only means by which a nation can assert against challenge its conception of right. British public life and English litera ture, under the in¿uence of that Liberalism of which Bright was the great exponent, were pervaded by a false and dis totted view of war, and regarded the exertion of force in support of right, not as something that might be necessary and for which the nation ought to be prepared, but as some thing altogether wrong. The current theories of public affairs were of no use to me. I had to begin again at the beginning and to build up for myself a view of national ex istence and national policy. Six years ago I sketched my conclusions as well as I could in a volume entitled The Great Alternative: 0 Plea for a N ational Policy, and a year or two later attempted a simpler if more systematic exposition in a second volume entitled The N ation's Awakening: Essays Towards a British Policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.