Mises Daily
Author:
Joseph R. Stromberg
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On the relationship between war and heightened statism, let us now look at things from the standpoint of Martin van Creveld’s The Rise and Decline of the State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Van Creveld, a military historian who teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, seeks to come to grips with the inner logic of the