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The Somme and British identity are all a part of us.
(From Irish Independent)
BRITISH history has been shaped by war. The country's power in the world was spread by battle, and sustained and extended by the use of war or the threat of war.
Out of this there grew a concept of war as 'glorious'.
It is unfashionable now to think of war in that way, even to write the words. But this turning away from unfashionable concepts in respect of armies and heroism, of death and sacrifice, is a recent part of modern memory.
It is sustained in many ways, one of them the rather crude interpretation of the Battle of the Somme as some kind of ghastly mistake by the generals who set it in motion, and sacrificed tens of thousands of men in a largely futile engagement.
Yet it was in keeping with the larger landscape of the war on that and other fronts and it was undoubtedly in keeping with what was to follow in the wars, including the Second World War, that have been an unbroken constant of power and politics since that time.
At no point since the Second World War has the world been free of conflict.
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