Editing Peace through strength (section)

==Criticism==
For [[Andrew Bacevich]], "belief in the efficacy of military power almost inevitably breeds the temptation to put that power to work. 'Peace through strength' easily enough becomes 'peace through war.{{' "}}<ref>{{cite news |title=The Western Way of War Has Run its Course |author=[[Andrew Bacevich]] |newspaper=[[CBS News]] |date=4 August 2010 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-western-way-of-war-has-run-its-course/ |access-date=20 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110084721/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/04/opinion/main6742001.shtml |archive-date=10 November 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Jim George of [[Australian National University]] used the term to describe part of what he argued was the [[Leo Strauss|Straussian]] and [[neoconservative]] foreign policy of the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|George W. Bush administration]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Jim George |date=June 2005 |title=Leo Strauss, Neoconservatism and US Foreign Policy: Esoteric Nihilism and the Bush Doctrine |journal=International Politics |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=174&ndash;202 |doi=10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800106|s2cid=143465538 }}</ref>

The mock inversion "strength through peace" has been used on occasion to draw criticism to the militaristic system of diplomacy advocated by "peace through strength".<ref>{{cite book |title=Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s |pages=[https://archive.org/details/politeprotesters0000lofl/page/103 103]–104 |author=John Lofland |url=https://archive.org/details/politeprotesters0000lofl |url-access=registration |year=1993 |publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=9780815626053 }}</ref> Ohio Representative [[Dennis Kucinich]] adopted the slogan "Strength Through Peace" during his 2008 presidential run as part of his platform as a peace candidate against the [[Iraq War]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rzXqCEJPhLMC&pg=PA29 |title=The Race for the 2008 Democratic Nomination: A Book of Editorial Cartoons |editor=Eric Appleman |publisher=Pelican Publishing |year=2008 |page=29 |isbn=9781455610808 |access-date=2016-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103012423/http://books.google.com/books?id=rzXqCEJPhLMC&pg=PA29 |archive-date=2014-01-03 |url-status=live }}</ref>