《Moonwar 》作者：- Ben Bova【EPUB】

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see revision notes at end of text Moonwar Book II of The Moonbase Saga Ben Bova CONTENTS Prologue MOONBASE CONTROL CENTER Part I Skirmish Part II Siege Part III Battle War is an evil thing, but to submit to the dictation of other states is worse… Freedom, if we hold fast to it, will ultimately restore our losses, but submission will mean permanent loss of all that we value… To you who call yourselves men of peace, I say: You are not safe unless you have men of action on your side. -Thucydides Once we have lived through the rapid changes that are now marking our transition from the third to the fourth phase of history, from a period of diversification to one of unification, we shall be squarely faced with a number of serious problems… It has been shown by many social experiments that man cannot control every facet of life. All we can do is to try to isolate the factors that are the keys to the entire structure, and to work on them. These are basically: the conservation of natural resources; power-production; population-control; the full utilization of brainpower; and education. The details of the social structure will fall into place automatically as the end product of all these forces; as they always have done… Political unification of the world is not the first necessary step. By the time