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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
Peace-planning is the attempt to invent institutions and to reformulate policies to prevent future wars. Among the numerous ideas on the future organization of the peace, the idea of disarmament has found particularly wide acceptance. In time of peace, there is no need of maintaining armies and armaments on their war time level. Farreaching demobilization is an economic necessity. Consequently, no objections are being raised against the substantial reduction of armaments after the end of hostilities.
* This article is not directed against disarmament as one of the means of maintaining peace but against an over-estimation of a purely technical disarmament which would overlook the importance of the fundamental will to keep peace and avoid war.—The Editors.