Among other things, this book is an account of how the vibrant and broad-based anti-war movement which followed the mindless carnage of World War I was systematically undermined by clever and industrious agents of the arms industry. There's a lot of money in making weapons and without wars, weapons tend to stack up. Cousins sheds a light on the legions of people who use their intelligence to promote mayhem so their paymasters can draw down their inventories and get the order forms full again.







