Deterring Armageddon Quotes

“Any person who doesn’t clearly understand that national security and national solvency are mutually dependent, and that permanent maintenance of a crushing weight of military power would eventually produce dictatorship, should not be entrusted with any kind of responsibility in our country.”
― Peter Apps, Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance

“There is no greater probability of war today than it was two years ago . . . We can only say that properly balanced strength will promote the possibility of avoiding war. In this sense, we need the strength soon – but it must be balanced between moral power, economic power and pure military power.”
― Peter Apps, Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance