<Li> The human race will not eliminate war in this century, but we can reduce the brutality of war--the level of killing--by adhering to the principles of a "Just War," in particular to the principle of "proportionality ." </Li> <Li> The indefinite combinations of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations . </Li> <Li> We (the U.S.A.) are the most powerful nation in the world--economically, politically, and militarily--and we are likely to remain so for decades ahead . But we are not omniscient . If we cannot persuade other nations with similar interests and similar values of the merits of the proposed use of that power, we should not proceed unilaterally except in the unlikely requirement to defend directly the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii . </Li> <Li> Moral principles are often ambiguous guides to foreign policy and defense policy, but surely we can agree that we should establish as a major goal of U.S. foreign policy and, indeed, of foreign policy across the globe: the avoidance, in this century, of the carnage--160 million dead--caused by conflict in the 20th century . </Li>

The fog of war eleven lessons from the life of robert