The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.
Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece of software! In short, the political intelligence of war and the political intelligence of society no longer penetrate the techno-scientific world.
