It would be very interesting to study this set of documents, analyses, programs, and researchfor itself; because it seems to me tllat,ifI am not mistaken, this is the first: t:Lm.~ that entire nations waged war on the basis ofa system of pacts which were not justinternational alliances between powers, but 'social pacts ofa kind that promised-=to those who were asked to go, to war and get themselves killed-a certain type ofeconomic and'social organization which assured security ( of employment, with regard to illness and other kinds of risk and at the level of retirement): they were pacts of security at th~ moment of a demand for war. The demand for war on the part of governments is accompanied-and very quickly; there are texts on the theme from 1940-by this offer of a social pact and security.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 1124