most an organizational residue of war. This is because to wage a war the central government becomes the most efficient and powerful machine of war, all manifested to promote collective action for the good of the state. While the tragic legacy of war is the destruction of persons and property, the lasting legacy represents this great force of collective actions that is organized when war ends “The legacies that do endure are the experience of the collective endeavor—newly forged channels of social cooperation—and the organizational residues of war, those political institutions forged to make possible its waging. Since full-scale industrialized war cannot possibly be fought by militia forces or in any decentralized manner, it invariably leads to the concentration of immense power in a central government” (Porter 192).
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