Preventing the return of war cannot seriously be discussed until we have taken pains to consider not its more or less obvious ends, but the means it sets in motion; not its unthinkable justifications, but its structure. I’m not hiding the fact that this leaves us open to bitter reflections, but I think we can bear the weight if that is the price of more clairvoyance, even more so if we are convinced that the cure can only be born from a less superficial understanding of the illness. We must b...