How to Think Clearly About War
Why Our Belief Systems Create Misperceptions- Published in The European, Nov 2014
Rivahardtowrite.com
Perhaps the most astonishing lesson of World War Two is that, in the aftermath of total war and unconditional surrender, a hard reset of two very different cultures was possible. Judging from the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, it certainly seems that one can bomb ideas—by obliterating many of the people who hold them. Kill a s
... See moreFrom Sam Harris • Hamas and Human Sacrifice
[My father] says in his experience it is the man who has been in a war who understands that war is cruel and foolish and sinful, and anyone who defends war as natural to the human condition is a person of stunted imagination.
All wars are based on concepts, some ideology that a nation says is Truth…
Gregg Krech • The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology
In this effort, the literary classics will ultimately be firmer and more useful guides than any social science methodology for those who have not had a personal experience with war and death. - Robert Kaplan