The Art of War is of vital importance to the state.

It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.

Hence, it is a subject of inquiry which can on no

account be neglected. Sun Tzu, the art of war. War was always here, before a man was,

war waited for him, the ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. Cormac McCarthy,

Blood Meridian. War is like a monster, he says, almost to himself.

War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and it grows.

He's looking at me now.

And otherwise normal men become monsters too.

Patrick Ness, the knife of never letting go.

They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view

on that one.

To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible.

He stands over your shoulder, repeating one thing incessantly.

Get it done, get it done.

So you work harder, you get the job done.

The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more. Mark Susak, the book thief.

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy

in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

John Stuart Mill

The I O'Nay The butcher's bill of the Thirty

The butcher's bill of the Thirty Years' War is difficult to ascertain.

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