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Article: New enemies for old? (argument against cuts in defense spending; includes related article on the Red Army) (Cover Story)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 17, 1990
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Peace was busting out all over-until Saddam Hussein walked into Kuwait. And the Red Army has more firepower than ever before. Can America really afford a peace dividend? 1984 STUDY by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences determined that since 3600 B.C. there had been 14,531 wars with only 292 years of peace over the entire span of 5,584 years studied. At that, the Academy undoubtedly missed some wars whose documentation has been lost in the mists of time. Historians James Dunnigan and William Martel, in their book How to Stop a War, describe some four hundred wars fought over the last two hundred years. The Lenz Peace Research Laboratory in St. Louis reports that there were ...
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