...unlock that, express it. As kinetic energy a country is organization, coordinated effort, your epithet, fascism. . . .Historically the purpose of this war...translate America's potential into kinetic energy." The general explains that we are about to take over the German dream. "You can consider the Army," he concludes,...

...organization, co-ordinated effort, your epithet, fascism.' He [General Cummings] moved his chair slightly. 'Historically the purpose of this war is to translate America's potential into kinetic energy'" (ND, 321). Cummings makes speeches like this with some frequency, but they are all cartoons; Cummings...

...liberal junior officer, Hearn, about the historical significance of the war for the United States: Historically the purpose of this war is to translate America's potential into kinetic energy . . . When you've created power, materials, armies, they don't wither of their own accord. Our vacuum...

...States. General Cummings's formulation of this idea is worth quoting at some length: '1 listorically the purpose of this war is to translate America's...actual natures, merely started in the wrong country [Germany], in a country which did not have enough intrinsic potential power to develop completely....

...the war. The time setting is now ten years ago, but General Cummings had caught the vision of 1984: Historically the purpose of this war is to translate...actual natures, merely started in the wrong country. . . . America is going to absorb that dream, it's in the business of doing it now. When you've created...