national defence

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We now need chairs and institutes of research, not for the trivial business of popular enlightenment and lectures, but for the study and investigation of the needs of national culture, the idea which must now take the place of national defence.

The New Society Walther Rathenau 1894
This capability of national defence has a pronounced educative value in national development.

Germany and the Next War Friedrich von Bernhardi 1889