There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we’ve been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
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