Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame,net.jokes Subject: Re: doublespeak awards Message-ID: <513@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 14:08:47 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.513 Posted: Sun Dec 2 14:08:47 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 00:53:39 EST References: <3165@mit-eddie.UUCP> <110@sbcs.UUCP> Distribution: net.politics,net.flame,net.jokes Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.politics:6035 net.flame:7087 net.jokes:9786 > > > > * The Pentagon, which renamed peace "permanent pre-hostility," ... > > > > Shades of Orwell's "Ministry of Peace"! > Yes, indeed. Also shades of someone much older; von Clausewitz. The above phrase is a shortening of his "peace is the period of hostility between two wars". Anyone interested in deciphering the thought processes of the military should get a copy of *On War*, Penguin Books, first published in 1832. -- Jeff Myers The views above may or may not University of Wisconsin-Madison reflect the views of my employers. Madison Academic Computing Center ARPA: uwmacc!myers@wisc-rsch.arpa uucp: ..!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!myers