All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages.
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.