The Meaning of War.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Linebarger, Paul Myron Anthony
Open passage
War is coming to mean the effectuation or prevention of revolution, not the half-savage, half-courteous armed conflict of sovereign nations. War is getting to be chronic again.55 War between entirely comparable states such as the United States and Canada, Mexico and Cuba, Indonesia and India, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, or any similar combination, is getting to be more and more unthinkable. War between ideologically dissimilar states, such as North Korea and South Korea, Communist China and Nationalist China, Viet Minh and Viet Nam, USSR and USA, is getting to be virtual normality.

Source attribution

Psychological Warfare, Project Gutenberg eBook #48612

CHAPTER 16 Research, Development, and the Future Research into Tension.