In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
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