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“To wojna, wszystkiego dowodzi i wszystko usprawiedliwia. Matka wszechrzeczy. Do niej się wszystko przystosowuje.”

Book:Wir nannten ihn Galgenstrick

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“If Israel defends itself too fully from people who joyfully wish it harm—people who behead others as a negotiating tactic—the world will choke Israel economically. If they don’t defend vigorously enough, more of its citizens get killed. The world has imposed the Vietnam standard on Israel: it isn’t currently allowed to end local terrorism by winning! And so, there will be a next war”

War Israel Terrorism Defence Israeli Palestinian Conflict Palestinians Palestine Israeli Conflict

Book:The Case for a Larger Israel

Source: The Case for a Larger Israel

“The wolves came running swiftly To rend the battle-fallen.”

War Battlefields Skaldic Verse

Book:King Harald's Saga

Source: King Harald's Saga

“All wars are in some way related to politics, and the aim of Politics is to obtain power.”

War Politics Wars Machiavellianism

Book:The Enemy of Europe: The Enemy of Our Enemies

Source: The Enemy of Europe: The Enemy of Our Enemies

“...though wars can still bring adventures which can stir the heart, their true nature is of innumerable personal tragedies, of grief, waste and sacrifice, wholly evil and not redeemed by glory.”

War Death Glory Tragedy

Book:The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure

Source: The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Adventure

“There are two basic military functions: waging war and preparing for war. Any military activities that do not contribute to the conduct of a present war are justifiable only if they contribute to preparedness for a possible future one. Clearly, we cannot afford to separate conduct and preparation. They must be intimately related because failure in preparation leads to disaster on the battlefield.”

War Training Preparation Marine Corps Usmc

Book:Warfighting

Source: Warfighting

“30 cents, two transfers, love Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.”

Love Poetry Friendship Longing

Author:Richard Brautigan

“Hannibal under the double blow of so great a public and personal distress exclaimed: 'Now, at last, I see the destiny of Carthage plain!”

War Ancient Rome Carthage Hannibal Barca Titus Livius

Book:The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal

Source: The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal

“There exists in this war a strange calculation, which obeys no clear logic, that devalues everyday life to the point of negation. In the eyes of those who order an attack on a peaceful city, life in this place has already ceased to exist long before the strike.”

War Russia Ukraine

Book:War Diary

Source: War Diary

“The wounds keep getting bigger. But sometimes a little voice comes to whisper in my ear, constantly repeating: ‘They keep fighting, we keep fighting.’ Then the wounds heal faster.”

War Wounds War In Ukraine

Book:War Diary

Source: War Diary

“This ability of the residents of Berdyansk to go on fighting, to approach the soldiers unarmed and shout the truth in their faces, even when the city has almost fallen into Putin’s hands - this promises a lot. It is hope itself.”

War Resistance Vladimir Putin War In Ukraine

Book:War Diary

Source: War Diary

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