Books in Brief: Will America Surrender?

WILL AMERICA SURRENDER? by Slobodan M. Draskovich (Devin-Adair, 451 pp., $9.95).

This critique of America’s response to Communist global political warfare exposes the consequences of the view that avoiding nuclear war is the chief concern proper to policy. Further, it reveals the ideological premise of this nuclearitis: “In World War II, there was not the slightest ambiguity about the military enemy, Nazi Germany and Japan, about the aim, unconditional victory. . . .” After Hitler this all changed. New Left cold war interpretations notwithstanding, the hawks gradually became doves. Despite the steady decline of Western strength since 1945, a firm United States policy of self-assertion can, Draskovich asserts, turn the tide in our favor and without real danger of nuclear war. Such a policy presupposes recognition that we are engaged in a real war. General Thomas Lane does not exaggerate when he writes in his foreword that this book “is a course in international relations far superior to the texts used in our colleges.”

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WILL AMERICA SURRENDER? by Slobodan M. Draskovich (Devin-Adair, 451 pp., $9.95).

This critique of America’s response to Communist global political warfare exposes the consequences of the view that avoiding nuclear war is the chief concern proper to policy. Further, it reveals the ideological premise of this nuclearitis: “In World War II, there was not the slightest ambiguity about the military enemy, Nazi Germany and Japan, about the aim, unconditional victory. . . .” After Hitler this all changed. New Left cold war interpretations notwithstanding, the hawks gradually became doves. Despite the steady decline of Western strength since 1945, a firm United States policy of self-assertion can, Draskovich asserts, turn the tide in our favor and without real danger of nuclear war. Such a policy presupposes recognition that we are engaged in a real war. General Thomas Lane does not exaggerate when he writes in his foreword that this book “is a course in international relations far superior to the texts used in our colleges.”