A Warriors’ Ideas of War

"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Napoleon said at St. Helena, “The more I study the world, the more I

am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.”

(What a pity he could not have seen this before Austerlitz and Jena and

Moscow!) The Duke of Wellington wrote to Lord Shaftesbury, “War is a most detestable thing. If you had seen but one day of war, you would

pray God that you might never see another.” George Washington said,

“My first wish is to see this plague to mankind banished from the earth.”

"Only the dead have seen the end of war." Plato