Another quote from Kearny’s book (end of chapter 2):
Some maintain that after an atomic attack
America would degenerate into anarchy—an every-man-for-himself struggle for existence. They forget
the history of great human catastrophes and the self-sacrificing strengths most human beings are capable
of displaying. After a massive nuclear attack
starvation would afflict some areas, but America’s
grain-producing regions still would have an abundance of uncontaminated food. History indicates
that Americans in the food-rich areas would help the
starving. Like the heroic Russians who drove food
trucks to starving Leningrad through bursting Nazi
bombs and shells; many Americans would risk
radiation and other dangers to bring truckloads of
grain and other necessities to their starving countrymen. Surely, an essential part of psychological
preparations for surviving a modern war is a well-founded assurance that many citizens of a strong
society will struggle to help each other and will work
together with little regard for danger and loss.
Note that Kearny has war experience (working for the forerunner of the American CIA in China in 1944) in a country at war (with the Japanese and also with each other in the Chinese civil war that ended in 1949 with the victory of the Chinese Communist Party) in which millions of citizens were starving.
Another quote from Kearny’s book (end of chapter 2):
Note that Kearny has war experience (working for the forerunner of the American CIA in China in 1944) in a country at war (with the Japanese and also with each other in the Chinese civil war that ended in 1949 with the victory of the Chinese Communist Party) in which millions of citizens were starving.