John Boyd
John Boyd
war airplane alternatives
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
real evil police
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
civilization stimulus new-knowledge
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
country communication years
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
rivals empires defeat
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
revenge war lust
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
war thinking agreement
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
world sovereignty absolutes
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
country becoming world
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
powerful war weapons
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
people politics sandwiches
If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.
past animal records
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied directly to human beings who vary widely in their hereditary make-up, in their environment, and in their past health record.
government use world
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
airplane government political
As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.