Anarchist
national defense and foreign policy
by Keith Preston
"[B]y far the most common objection I have encountered involves the
matter of the alleged vulnerability of an anarchist society or
territory to external marauders or invaders. It is claimed that a
powerful centralized state in possession of a large military
bureaucracy is essential if outward aggressors are to be deterred
or repelled." (11/25/02)
Can a Stateless Society
Survive?
by Bruce L. Benson
"... if a free nation is to survive, its members must be willing to
fight to maintain it ..."
Comments upon Security,
National and Domestic
by Richard Hammer
Optimistic and pessimistic arguments about the ability of the market
to provide security.
Defending a Free Nation
by Roderick T. Long
Advocates "organization without centralization" as the best method for
a free nation to defend itself from foreign invaders.
Defending a Free Nation:
The Status Economy
by Gary F. York
A proposal to defend a free nation by conferring prestige on individuals
in proportion to the contributions they make toward national defense.
Defense Through
Free-Market Sports
by Douglas Nusbaum
Use war games to raise funds for the defense of a free nation.
Devil's Advocate:
No Defense Needed
by Bobby Yates Emory
A free nation needs no military forces.
Freedom Solves
the Problem of War
by R. J. Rummel
Chapter 3 of The Miracle That Is Freedom.
Funding Public Goods:
Six Solutions
by Roderick Long
Explains why we should be optimistic about the ability of the market
to supply even such services as national defense.
Historical
Examples of Nonviolent Struggle
by the Albert Einstein Institute
A short list of successful nonviolent protests.
Keeping Our Freedom
in an Unfree World
by Mary Ruwart
How a free nation would defend itself from internal and external threats.
Lancaster's
Theory of Anarchist Defense
by Matt Lancaster
The Literature of
Nonviolent Resistance and Civilian-Based Defense
by Bryan Caplan
This bibliographic essay outlines the history of nonviolent resistance
and its implications.
Nonviolent Civilian
Defense
by Robert Mihaly
How people in a libertarian nation could use nonviolent means to defend
themselves against terrorists.
The Private Production of Defense
by Hans-Herman Hoppe
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to handle PDF files.
Privateering and national defense: Naval warfare for private profit
by Larry J. Sechrest
The author challenges claims that national defense is a public good
that must be supplied by the state, and examines the history of
privateering -- privately provided naval warfare.
The Return of Leviathan:
Can We Prevent It?
by Roderick T. Long
An analysis of the ability of the three main models for a free nation
(constitutional, proprietary, and pure market) to prevent the state
from taking over.
The State as the Only
Defense Against Nuclear War
by Roy Halliday
This paper draws out the implications of the argument that a state
with nuclear weapons is the only defense against other states with
nuclear weapons.
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