War is not an art, boy. Send a hundred men over a hill and know that they wont make it. Hold a drummer boy, cut open from groin to neck, guts spilling out as he cries for his mother, telling him its going to be all right. Make him believe you. Be his commanding officer, his god. Let him let his guard down and be kind enough to snap his neck. War is butchery. And I am the better butcher.

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  • War — Reflections on conflict, peace, and the human cost of war

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