A Philosophy of War - Hardcoverby Henri Paul Hude (Author) What is war today? To answer this question, we can no longer rely on notions of war elaborated in various classic works, because we are faced with a new problem how to save humankind from annihilation in a total world war involving weapons of mass destruction. The simplest answer is to establish a "Leviathan," whose promise and project is straight forward: cancel all powers except one, which will be universal and absolute,