The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.