A thirty-year war for energy pre-eminence? You wouldn’t wish it on a desperate planet. But that’s where we’re headed and there’s no turning back.
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Discusses the continuous flow of arms and ammunition to Chile despite U.S. Congress' passage of a comprehensive embargo on military sales to the country in 1976. Discovery of the delivery of aircraft engines, transport planes, naval search radars and high-explosive artillery shells; Alleged foreknowledge, consent and cooperation of U.S. officials on the arms shipment.
The article examine the ways in which university life university life has been altered by the research priorities of the cold war, and assesses the effects of the campus movement against war research. It is only in the past three decades that instrumentalities of warfare have emerged from organized scientific investigations, in which the talents of many researchers are pooled in the quest for novel military systems. Since the only reservoir of trained scientific manpower available for such work was the university community, it was inevitable that the nation's institutions of higher education be mobilized for the establishment of a military research network.
The author says that to gain a world-historical perspective on the war in Vietnam, one must see it as but one episode in a Great South Asian War that began almost immediately after World War II, and can be expected to continue into the 1970s, if not well beyond them. These episodes constitute a common war not only because they occupy overlapping zones in a single theatre of war but also because they spring from a common cause, the determination of the advanced industrial nations of the West to intensify their control over the destinies of the underdeveloped lands of, Asia.
