Abstract

The Problem of Security

New factors, which have entered into the modern world, have changed the basis of national security. The course of this war has demonstrated how important a factor a nation's industrial power is in its military potential. The ultimate defeat of Germany and Japan rests firmly on the combined industrial strength of the United States, the British Commonwealth, and Russia Federation. Never before in the history of the modern state system has so much power been concentrated in the hands of three states. These changes have a definite bearing on the security position of small and non-industrial states and have rendered obsolete certain factors, which previously were considered important aids to national security. As long as power remains concentrated in a solid organization of the three or four major industrial states that now constitute the core of the United Nations group, the national security of the United States is guaranteed.