From Whence Comes Wars
Thoughts of author Prof. Dr. Thomas Fletcher Grooms
The Father of Market Intelligence
The rapidly increasing tempo of change in relations of opposing powers has given the world a sense of impending crisis. This emotional radical change of status in our lives has left many feeling insecure in an uncertain world.
Through emerging confederacy of nations, consolidations have arisen in new economic power structures, political power alignments, the rise and fall of national currencies, controlling world trade, and managing the majority of the world’s energy reserves. Disaster after disaster keeps reducing the world’s population.
Whether it’s oil blackmail, preparation for war or separation from an ally, warning signs are all around. We might ask ourselves if there were ever a land of promise, and if so, what happened to it.
A universal view of war exists because it’s not misunderstood but rather embraced by those whose lives are not on the frontline being shot at. There is an impeding burden which lies between the president of a country and the ruling chambers of legislation to restrict war, sometime to defeat, not victory.
There can be no war unless two sides have a mutual desire and willingness to fight. The president of every country is sole architect of war and responsible for any and all engagement of conflict and war. (Grooms, Quotable Tom, 2025)
In war, the president’s strategy becomes the macrocosm science and art of employing the political, economic, psychological, and military forces of a country to provide the maximum support to the adopted policies of politics. The military’s tactic of engagement becomes the microcosm planned action in operational sustained effect of destruction.
It cannot be ignored war begins with passive successive effort and engages opposing forces in conflict of mutual ruin. In the end, there can only be one outcome, one winner and one survivor.
Whether it’s social revolution or outright war for political, economic, racial, radical or religious conflict could at any time strike the spark that ignites World War III. In spite of our past official record and lessons learned from our history about war, we keep on playing the Armageddon game of global annihilation.
Without advantage no war can be won. Without leverage no war can result in victory. No number of blockades, sanctions, threats, economic pressure, economic sanctions or failed strategy can lead to a favorable outcome. No amount of military strikes can occur without massive loss of life, depletion of resources, and inflation-debt costs thus leading to a destructive finality.
In spite of all the speeches, books and promises on universal peace to end world conflict, the reality of it all still makes all-out nuclear war ever present in our lives and an ever-impending possibility. The fact is once you make a mistake, there is no going back, there is no forgiveness, and there is no way to make it right.
All the while our human fallibility continues to ignore the lessons from the past, not heed the warning sign before us, or the prospect of what the future may look like were another nuclear device was set-off in our world. With experiencing the repetition of history, our days with certainty may be cut unnecessarily short and the careless loss of life will haunt us the rest of this century.
The human condition is such we cannot live without war. Call it genetics, human nature or desire, for we cannot live in peace with each other as its static state existence is unacceptable.
Because of our selfish-nature and lust to destroy anything thought different, offensive or simply disliked because it exists, serves no good purpose. This lies so inside our makeup which is basically self-centered while we turn our back on humanity.
Our inherent innate nature prohibits having peace of mind, peace within ourselves and experiencing consistent peace in our relationships with our family, our neighbors, and on a broader scale with other nations. In other words, we are what’s wrong with the world. This is why we can’t get along.
This is why we experience the consequences we do. We are discontented with the things the way they are which are not our way. Regardless of our fame, wealth or power, we seem never satisfied which distributes turmoil.
It is human nature to try and fill the empty vacuum in our lives. So instead of accepting things as they are, we tend to sometime fight with our family members causing internal dissent and conflict, the same as often nations with other nations.
Never at peace at home or in the world. To be content with what we have is the best way to live without war, which is to never start a war.
Some may consider this attitude to be pacifist. It is not and far from it. War and action of force is sometimes necessary knowing there are bad actors, criminals, hate groups, corrupt people in positions of authority, and the delusional head-of-state threatening innocent lives.
Without a new paradigm of life, we continue to follow the narrow path of repeating history in a bad way. This cannot be done by any one belief or system of government, education, doctrine or religion.
Someone else’s dimension is never acceptable to all others because it is thought this is the truth, the only way, the answer, or I know best. Anytime there is interference in our lives whether it is from a person or government, we all suffer. We all suffer when someone doesn’t do what’s right.
Maybe we have had our last chance. Maybe it’s a mute fact, more than the human condition needs to change, maybe it’s the flawed human character.
Fear of world war three may grow until it prepares us to accept that war is the only solution for preventing other wars. No one president, person or country in the world can assure peace for the world has never known peace.
We have seen how the occurring events of current times are fitting together simultaneously into the precise pattern of the predicted eventuality of world war three. For us living in the twenty-first century, this turn of events all began in 1948 with the reunification of the Jewish people to Palestine and revived the nation of Israel under Israeli control.
Beginning at the time, Russia emerged as the great northern power and an enemy of Israel. The Arabs and Persians began a concentrated effort to liberate Palestine under Egyptian leadership. The African nations moved from a sympathetic position of neutrality toward supporting the Islamic open alliance in an effort to liberate the Jewish factor of occupation.
The Euphrates River running some 1800 miles, ten to thirty feet deep, and scarcely fordable anywhere or at any time figures prominently in military history and serves as a buffer between Asia and the Middle East. Should the Euphrates ever dry-up, the churning of upheaval going on in Asia could overflow the conflict into the Middle East, thus encapsulating Israel.
At this time, it appears the nations of Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen have Iran surrounded. Or is it Iran’s missiles that have those countries surrounded.
With outside interferences of the world in the Middle East, is there any possibility for peace or is it just more of what we have always had and expected …? So, what do we do …? It may be …
The only hope in a hostile world is for the winds of war to stop blowing. Yet our unwillingness to do so continues from whence comes wars.
Copyright © 2026 Tom Grooms
First Place Texas Nonfiction Historical Award
The Father of Market Intelligence … The Master of the Family Business
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