Preface to the Korean Translation

It is not easy to write for a foreign audience about a subject
which so deeply affects all our lives. This is particularly true in the
case of a Korean edition. No country knows better the meaning of war.
None has been affected more deeply by the schisms of our period. Few
other people have been tested more severely; none have responded more
heroically.

This book has been conceived as a treatise on the nature of peace
rather than as an advocacy of a strategy for war. The paradox of our
period is that peace can be maintained only by steadfastness and resolution.
Freedom begins where men are willing to fight for it.

This book is based on the assumption that some values are
more important than mere survival. If they are not, little in it has
application. We can always have the peace of impotence. This book strives
to define a posture for peace with dignity. The willingness to defend
values will not offer a solution to all our problems; but it will give us
a chance to solve them in freedom and dignity.

Preface to the Japanese Translation

It is not easy to write for a foreign audience about a
subject which so deeply affects all our lives. Since this book was first
published nearly a year ago, the prospects have become, if anything, more
ominous. The power in the hands of humanity to destroy itself has increased.
The political schisms have not healed.

No other people has more reason to be concerned about the
consequences of this situation than Japan. Not only its geographic position,
but its experience make Japan rightly sensitive to the portends of the
nuclear age. It is therefore with a deep sense of responsibility that I
take the opportunity afforded by this preface to the Japanese edition to
make a few remarks about the intention behind this book:

This book has been conceived as a treatise on the nature of
peace rather than as an advocacy of a strategy of war. This may seem
paradoxical but it underlines the dilemma of our period. Given the horrors
of the new technology, all men of good will must strive to maintain the peace.
But given the challenge the whole free world faces, peace can be maintained
only by steadfastness and resolution. Freedom begins where men are willing

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to fight for it. But this willingness depends on the alternatives offered
by military policy. It is often said that armaments produce war. But it
is equally true that unpreparedness also produces war by encouraging possible
aggressors and by paralyzing resistance often until it is too late.

This book is based on the assumption that some values are
more important than mere survival. If they are not, little in it has
application. We can always have the peace of impotence. This book strives
to define a posture for a peace with dignity.

Nor is the willingness and the ability to defend freedom
sufficient by itself. Military strength will not supply an answer to the
aspirations of humanity; it can contribute to a framework in which these
aspirations can be worked out in freedom.

It is tempting to believe that the threat of war can be
banished by denying its reality. It is understandable that many thoughtful
and argued people should insist that the free world concentrate on
constructive tasks and forego the arms race.

But the dilemma of our period is precisely that we do not
have this choice. In the long run everything depends on the degree to which
we can generate common purposes and contribute to a world from which the

we can generate common burdens and contribute to a world from which the
have this choice. In the long run everything depends on the degree to which
But the difference of our period is precisely that we do not
constructive tasks and forego the same race.

and *unlimited* people should instal that the free world concentrate on
performed by denying its reality. It is understandable that many thoughtfully
It is tempting to believe that the threat of war can be
sabrina tions can be worked out in freedom.

sacrations of humanity: it can contribute to a framework in which these
eminent *p. itself*. Military strength will not ably an answer to the
Nor is the willingness and the ability to extend freedom
to define a posture for a peace with dignity.

addiction. We can always have the peace of imprecision. This book arrives
more important than were survival. It they are not, little in it we
This book is based on the assumption that some arises are
aggression and *p. paralyzing* resistance often until it is too late.

is enough that unbreakable *also* produces war *p. encomaging possible
p. military policy*. It is often said that unremediate produced war. But it
to fight for it. But this willingness depends on the alternatives offered
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threat of war has been banished. But the road to this goal requires the inward strength to act in the face of ambiguous challenges and to engage in constructive tasks while protecting ourselves against external dangers.

We must not make the grave mistake of assuming that the problems of the free world are exclusively or even largely military. But it would be an equally serious error to believe that these problems can be removed by the desire for peace alone. Our moral conscience has never been more needed.

But it must not compound the onesidedness of much of contemporary strategic and political thinking by making our alternatives seem simpler than they are.