The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
— Ernest Hemingway Modern

Novelist, journalist

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Notes on the Next War (Esquire)

Date / Period

1935

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Controversial

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https://archive.esquire.com/article/1935/9/1/notes-on-the-next-war

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