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War Will Be War: No matter the era, no matter the weapons, the same old hell.
War is eternal. It is part of the human condition; it is, as Heraclitus wrote, "the father of us all." This is the first thing we must remember whenever discussion turns to "revolutions in military affairs." Some things will change, but the underlying laws and lessons that have shown themselves over millennia of warfare remain true about wars today -- and wars tomorrow.
One of these key truths is that culture largely determines how people fight. The degree to which a society embraces freedom, secular rationalism, consensual government, and capitalism often determines -- far more than its geography, climate, or population -- whether its armies will be successful ...
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