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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: doublespeak awards
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> > 
> > 	* 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.

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