Patrick Glynn, in The National Interest (Fall 19871, 1627 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washing-ton, D.C. 20009.
The present Western preoccupation with arms control, argues Glynn, as- sistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, rests on two faulty assumptions: that arms races cause wars and that wars happen "accidentally."
Glynn believes these false lessons derive from the same source: World War I revisionist historians. "The real dividing line in modem reflection...