Colleen Akiko

What standards should guide a president who holds the power to send people to war? In Part 3 of Collage of War, Dan Strawn turns to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warnings about preventive war, humility, evidence, and the responsibilities of command. Drawing on history and personal memory, he asks readers to consider what judgment, restraint, and character we should require of every commander in chief.

“We come out of a trance around capitalism… and around ‘there isn’t enough.’”

Eisenhower held a deep conviction that war is both morally wrong and strategically dangerous. He felt that peace, preparedness, and moral leadership are essential to safeguarding freedom and human dignity.