Very interesting, as a civilian this is a real eye-opener. Sustaining a military action is so complex.
I remember in the movie Patton, George C Scott surveys the remains of a battlefield, death and destruction everywhere, and he proclaims his love of war saying “compared to war all other human endeavours shrink too insignificance(paraphrase ).
What a different perspective. Do you think war has gotten a bad name? It is our magnum opus. What you’re admonishing in this piece is simple incompetence and the toll it has taken on the Russian aggressor. It is our heritage and our inheritance, war, and when prosecuted well, its sophistication is breath taking. You know we still love it: Predator drones and hellfire missiles and patriot defence systems, such jingoistic hyperbole. And our movies, come on, we love war and our humanist protestations against the horrors are sincere but kinda performative, the polite necessity.
Very interesting, as a civilian this is a real eye-opener. Sustaining a military action is so complex.
I remember in the movie Patton, George C Scott surveys the remains of a battlefield, death and destruction everywhere, and he proclaims his love of war saying “compared to war all other human endeavours shrink too insignificance(paraphrase ).
What a different perspective. Do you think war has gotten a bad name? It is our magnum opus. What you’re admonishing in this piece is simple incompetence and the toll it has taken on the Russian aggressor. It is our heritage and our inheritance, war, and when prosecuted well, its sophistication is breath taking. You know we still love it: Predator drones and hellfire missiles and patriot defence systems, such jingoistic hyperbole. And our movies, come on, we love war and our humanist protestations against the horrors are sincere but kinda performative, the polite necessity.
I think war has been mistreated.