"The book is strong when it exposes our culture's uncritical acceptance of war, when Cady shows that violent means are not likely to result in pacific ends and that peace has a harmonic and cooperative content and is not merely the absence of war .A worthy contribution to the discussion of the morality of war." --Choice "Not only does Cady take on an important and too often ignored task, but be succeeds admirably, His writing is clear and he has the ability to discuss philosophical principles and inferences without a pedantic fondness for obtuse vocabulary. Cady's identification of 'warism' as yet another subtle brand of tyranny is a master stroke. Thoreau claimed not to exaggerate when be stated that Slavery in Massachusetts will end when the first just man stands up and says that it is wrong. It may be that Cady's work will be the beginning of the end for the oppression of America's war system." --Daniel T. Regan, Director, Peace and Justice Program, Villanova University "In this excellent treatise Cady takes us on the arguous road from the popular just-war theories to a positive form of pacifism that is a far cry from the popular anti-war peace movements of today... Very highly recommended!" --SSC Booknews (Spiritual Studies Center, Rockville, MD)
