Part 1 of Essay
The industrial revolution and the great inventions that were growing out of it were to make possible the rapid deployment of huge armies over great areas. Modern total war was first presaged, not by dramatic technical advances, but by the revival of what is now called the ideological element of conflict. This came with t ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... destruction on an enemy society. Unlike the war of 1914 to 1918, World War II took the form of a true battle to the end between entirely different, agnostic politico-social systems. Loss of war threatened loss of everything, even freedom of individual conscience. World War II, which produced the cynical aggression and inhuman behavior of the aggressors, also left the legacy of the acts of the victims' aggressions. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not revolutionary events. One major justificati ....