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Entry: Militarism and Conservatism: Can this Marriage be Saved? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/militarism_and_conservatism_can_this_marriage_be_saved#18072 Post contents: Robert Nisbet, a passionately anti-militarist conservative, had a lot to say about the effects of militarism in the modern era. He notes that militarism (not just war) is by nature destructive of intermediate institutions -- family, church, guild, etc. -- that buffer the action of state power on the individual. What a strong military by its very nature desires, according to Nisbet, is a sovereign state ruling over a population of individuals unburdened by any of those messy pre-state loyalties and obligations. Oh, wait a minute -- that's what many self-described "conservatives" want too. Never mind. Sent at: 2008 09 08