According to the book description of Rules of Chivalry for Nuclear
War: How We Fight and Persuade Each Other, “This book is meant to be a guide book for warriors of they
are willing to think 'out of the box'. It has some history, some fiction, some philosophy, some discussion of theology, some
advice to young men about sex, and a little bit of physics. The center of the book is a proposal for "The Rules of Chivalry
for Nuclear War" (The ROCNWAR). See Chapter 9 if you want to go directly to the proposal. The thrust of the book is that
the characteristics of Chivalry are urgently needed when we engage in war.
A major premise is that fighting is one of the four "F" functions of
life: i.e., feeding, fleeing, fighting, and reproduction, and how we fight is more important than what we fight about. The
proposed rules are designed to: Be effective on promoting change; Lead to decreasing spirals of retaliation; Make the aggressor's
sacrifice certain and limited and not dependent on the dice of war; Display the determination of the opponents; Permit the
weak to attack the strong and the strong to attack the weak without recrimination; Promote the clarification and definition
of issues Promote reconciliation; Recognize that the defender has an inherent advantage; and, And make war a spectator sport.
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