John Boyd
John Boyd
thinking law civilization
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
war civilization intermittent
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
years fifty lasts
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
war agriculture world
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.
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.