Abstract
Abstract The present article sets out to more thoroughly examine George Marshall’s geo-political reasoning on strategic peace-building and the fundamentals of a more viable and sustainable peace structure. In so doing, it shows that although Marshall had been mainly preoccupied with the military side of the United States’ engagement in world affairs, he all the same developed a keen understanding of the strategic imperatives needed to fashion a more stable international order – particularly as concerned the methodical integration of America’s various foreign policies on a global scale.
Highlights
George Marshall’s role as the principal military organizer of the United States’ participation in the Second World War has been well-documented
The present article sets out to more thoroughly examine George Marshall’s geopolitical reasoning on strategic peace-building and the fundamentals of a more viable and sustainable peace structure. It shows that Marshall had been mainly preoccupied with the military side of the United States’ engagement in world affairs, he all the same developed a keen understanding of the strategic imperatives needed to fashion a more stable international order – as concerned the methodical integration of America’s various foreign policies on a global scale
It will demonstrate that Marshall had until been preoccupied with the United States’ military engagement in world affairs, he all the same developed a keen understanding of the strategic imperatives needed to fashion a more stable international order – as concerned the methodical integration of America’s foreign policies on a global scale
Summary
George Marshall’s role as the principal military organizer of the United States’ participation in the Second World War has been well-documented. People ought to be free to choose the form of government and economic organisation they desired, yet Marshall acknowledged that hunger and insecurity were often the worst enemies of freedom and democracy and that a person preoccupied with the gruelling demands of securing the meal for his family is much more susceptible to “any system which he is told will relieve his desperate condition” It was in the humane, economic, and world political interest of the United States to eliminate this detrimental state of affairs, all the more so when taking into account that wars were not seldom bred by poverty and oppression and that, “continued peace was possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world”.50. Instead the democratic nations had to provide leadership in reaffirming “a feeling of good faith among men generally”, given that many people were in sore need of the inspiration of great principles as a “rallying point against intolerance, against distrust, against that fatal insecurity
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