I was a pretty angry kid and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
War is evil but it is often the lesser evil.
The essential act of war is destruction not necessarily of human lives but...
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
The seed of everything is in everything else.
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That...
Information is power. But like all power, there are...