Designer: Allen Hurlburt 

Photographer: Art Kane 

Publisher: Cowles Communications, Inc./Look Magazine 

WAR 

AND

PEACE

Vietnam has given us no songs, no

glory. There have been 38 other 

wars fought since World War II,

but the U.S. has bumbled into one 

whose aims are unclear, and whose 

outcome is uncertain. Our little war,

like some vast malevolent genie,

has engulfed us. 

Our mass media forever drone its witless incantations; escalate, killrate, defoliate. 

We see the young, frightened face 

of a soldier go lifeless on the 6:00

news. We are thrust onto the field

to witness the old insanity of man

pruning out his kind. Vietnam 

has done something to the 

American mind. 

It has given us a 

new view of the meaning of modern

war, and called into question the 

virtue of U.S. military ventures.

With over 1,000 ICBM's sheathed 

in hidden scabbards, we could 

rain random death on over half the

population of our planet. Before we

are led to unleash this power, we 

might well reexamine our over-

committed role as global peace offi-

cer. We have sought to come to terms 

with other nations, whose people 

fear America. Now, our own scared 

citizens sense our need to 

come to terms with ourselves. 

WAR 

AND 

PEACE

TEXT BY WILLIAM HEDGEPETH