I think you'd be interested in this: http://laphamsquarterly.org/states-war http://laphamsquarterly.org/states-war It's an amazing collection of documents on

I think you'd be interested in this: http://laphamsquarterly.org/states-war http://laphamsquarterly.org/states-war It's an amazing collection of documents on war, across history and cultures, from Homer to the US invasion of Iraq, written by everyone from participants to victims to experts to scholars to poets. After reading it, my strong impression that was that Rome was brutal, but so has been almost everyone else.