Sublime

Fox Conner also viewed Woodrow Wilson’s concept that the nation had actually fought a “war to end all wars” as a “mere slogan of propaganda.” In contrast to the isolationist sentiment then prevalent in the United States, Conner repeatedly told Eisenhower that American participation in another large-scale European war was “almost a certainty.” Again

Quelle idée pouvait bien se faire de lui-même un soldat réduit à porter des boutons d’uniforme en plastique ? Comment pouvait-il se battre ? À qui pouvait-il faire peur ? Qui avait eu l’idée de remplacer le laiton brillant par de la merde moulée à la louche ? Certainement pas le haut commandement, plutôt un connard de pékin chargé de réduire les

soldiered with the Communist leadership that would ultimately wrest control of the country from the Nationalists. While there, he became interested in Chinese guerilla operations against the Japanese, specifically the small-unit, “democratic” leadership model that pushed authority and responsibility down to the most junior levels in small combat

Clausewitz himself proposed that war could best be compared with commerce, since both are social conflicts of human interests and activities.