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Armed forces—for peace or war?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Field Marshal Lord Carver
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It is a great honour to be invited to give this annual lecture in memory of Martin Wight, especially for one who never knew him, and is not a member of the academic community concerned with International Relations, of which he was so distinguished a figure. I have to admit that, when I was invited to give this lecture, I had heard of and knew nothing about him. That is, perhaps, not surprising, as very little of his work was published in his lifetime, and I did not move in the academic circles in which it was well known.

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Research Article
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Review of International Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 87 - 95
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Copyright © British International Studies Association 1988

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References

1. Wight, Martin, Power Politics (Harmondsworth, 1979).Google Scholar

2. Ibid., p. 212.

3. Ibid., p. 46.

4. Ibid., p. 112.

5. Ibid., p. 138.

6. Ibid., pp. 184–5.

7. Ibid., p. 254.

8. Ibid., p. 140.

9. I have since traced this to Howard, Michael and Paret, Peter (eds.), Clausewitz, On War (Princeton, 1976), p. 54.Google Scholar

10. Matthew, 5.39.

11. Calvocoressi, Peter, ‘Nuclear Weapons in the Service of Man’, Review of International Studies, 10 (1984), pp. 90–91.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

12. Power Politics, p, 255.