As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth (1949)

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