Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
We are muddled into war.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
My experience has been that military assessments on 'how goes the war' are consistently more optimistic than those made by the CIA and other agencies.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.