George Orwell. (2025, February 24). Wikiquote. Retrieved 18:47, March 2, 2025 from https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=George_Orwell&oldid=3673369.
American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.