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It's useful to recognize it, while simply abiding by only the parts of it which suit you. After all, if you need to, you can always ignore it and deny it. That
by M_Grey 10y ago
It's useful to recognize it, while simply abiding by only the parts of it which suit you. After all, if you need to, you can always ignore it and deny it.
That's the reality of war.
- jt2190 10y agoTrue, but this fatalistic view alone isn't an argument to stop trying to maintain ethical behavior even when when waging war.
- M_Grey 10y agoAbsolutely, and I didn't mean my post to come across that way. This topic makes me a bit glum, and I think that comes across as defeatist, but I'd rather take on the correct, losing fight, than not fight at all.
- HarryHirsch 10y agoOn the other hand, the Thirty Years War caused such destruction that the institutional memory in European nobility lasted 250 years. Total warfare on such scale was only seen again during the Peninsular War.