Summary of James Stewart Martin's All Honorable Men

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Sample Book Insights:

#1 Termites are an example of an organization that is able to adapt to change. They are small in size compared to the house they occupy, and they fiercely resist any outside interference. They object to changes in their environment because exposure to light and air kills them, and any movement of the underpinnings ruins the whole structure of tunnels and channels.

#2 The growing belief that these private international arrangements were important was highlighted when I met with German ex-chancellor Heinrich Brüning in 1940. He explained how he had been deposed due to the pressure of economic forces, and how he had never understood Thucydides’s classic history of the Peloponnesian War until then.

#3 The German economy was run by Dr. Brüning, who showed no concern for the large German industrial corporations. He blamed the depression on the activities of the German wine growers, who were unable to export their products.

#4 The idea of economic warfare seemed simple enough. Germany and Japan were enemy nations. To produce war materials and keep their people alive, they had to get some kinds of goods from territory outside their armies’ control.