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1. How has warfare changed the world we live in now?

2.//What War does to our Society//

3. Malu Innocent

4. http://www.cato.org/blog/what-war-does-our-society

5. I have accessed the source at my house at 8:45 pm on May 22nd 2014

6. **S**ubject: War, Effects of War, Warfare, Vietnam War **O**ccasion: U.S. failure in Vietnam War, Kissenger's assessments of America's involvement in Southeast Asia **A**udience: U.S. governments, blog viewers, Foreign governments
 * P**urpose: Inform the audience that assessments of war should go beyond critiques of its political and geostrategic ramifications, show the adverse effect of war, persuade reader to go against war
 * S**peaker: pacifists, children
 * Tone:** Serious, Forthright

7. The significance of warfare extends past the "critiques of its political and geostrategic ramifications" and to its role in society. Warfare can only destroy society one by one, changing the very "national character, spirit and moral temperament" of society as a whole. Such can only doom a nation to its downfall.

8. A true assessments of warfare's role in society, will only show its disastrous nature.

9. I was not very persuaded by the author's treatment of the topic. The author failed to effectively substantiate most of his claims, leaving the reader (me) in doubts if what he really said is true. I was largely unconvinced even when he brought up his examples as I believed that war is a necessary evil. His evidence was simply too weak.

10.

"The insight Kissinger provides–possibly unintentional–underscores why assessments of war should go beyond critiques of its political and geostrategic ramifications; they should also extend to the various ways that war affects our society and public more generally."

"Still, wars and debates over wars have the power not only to tear our society apart, but also to destroy our faith in each other in the process. "

"These factors are latent, ignored, and often misunderstood, but are detrimental to our country nonetheless."

"Certainly, increased public debt and diminished civil liberties are enduring, adverse effects of war."

 "As we witnessed in the lead up to the war in Iraq, war can erode what should be the public’s normal propensity to question authority and lead to a herd mentality that demands blind obedience to state authority."

"Over time, and through decades of continual foreign intervention, wars can radically alter our national character and transmogrify the spirit and moral temperament of our society. "

"Sadly, such a perilous path could doom our nation to a fate that befell history’s other predominant great powers."