This clash is reflected in a confusing way in everyday politics. Buchanan is an ultra-nationalist identified with the far right, Nader is, if anything, identified with the left. Neither does Democrat or Republican, Labor or Tory. What matters is your underlying attitude toward the new society and economy introduced by the Third Wave. It is a clash between two ways of life or two civilizations, one in decline, the other still emerging.
Societies make war the way they make wealth.
That is the thesis of our book, War and Anti-War . When countries industrialized their economies, they also industrialized their militaries. The machine age gave us the machine gun. Mass production gave us mass destruction. This knowledge-based technology, along with corresponding changes in organization, doctrine, force structure, training, and other dimensions of military power has contributed to America's giant lead in certain forms of military power.