ABSTRACT
Conditions today are suffi ciently turbulent that war might be visited upon the world without the impetus of planning or deliberate policy. One isolated action might precipitate confl ict, and, once started in a critical area, war leaps across new borders and quickly involves other nations whose whole desire is for peace. Our future security depends on American willingness to combat unceasingly the conditions that provoked war and on our readiness to defend America and its principles should war break out despite preventive measures. Our task is to convince any possible aggressor that he can choose war only at the risk of his own destruction. A grim outlet it may be, but it is inescapable.
