Pacific Energetics LLC

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"If deterrence is expensive—and it is—war is downright profligate." 

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While we at Pacific Energetics earnestly hope that potential combatants will achieve a more durable peace through understanding, until they do, we consider that the most reliable preventative of war is deterrence. 

In the wisdom of the ancient Latins:  Si vis pacem, para bellum. To have peace, prepare for war. 

Deterrence is the credible threat of force, in order to dissuade a potential opponent from striking. This can be achieved through the threat of retaliation or by denying your opponent his war aims. 

Pacific Energetics serves the ends of deterrence by helping the United States and its allies maintain their forces at optimal levels of readiness and by equipping Allied war fighters with the tools they will need to prevail in the case deterrence ever fails.

It has failed before. We must learn from history. 

Consider one example. Rear Admiral Sadatoshi Tomioka, former chief of operational section of the Imperial Japanese General Headquarters, reportedly remarked during a post-war debriefing*: "If MacArthur had an air force of 500 planes or more, we would not have ventured to strike the Philippines."

Unfortunately, the combined air power of the Philippine and American forces comprising the Far East Air Force at that time was fewer than 300 warplanes. And so the Japanese struck the United States at Pearl Harbor and launched an invasion of the Philippines, completing their destruction of the Far East Air Force by Day Six of their invasion. 

Think of it — for lack of another 200-plus deployed warplanes, the United States became embroiled in a world war that would not end until it had manufactured no fewer than 300,000 warplanes and sacrificed 420,000 lives! 

If deterrence is expensive—and it is—war is downright profligate. 

Pacific Energetics takes that lesson to heart. "A stitch in time saves nine" goes the aphorism. The important mission of Pacific Energetics is to provide that stitch in time lest the precious fabric of peace be allowed to unravel. 

We welcome partners in this noble effort.

- Richard K. Pruett, CEO, Pacific Energetics LLC

*Agdamag, Jr. Jose V. and Vicente M. Agdamag. 150 Days of Hell. (FRVN Business House, Makati, Philippines, 2003), p. 52.