If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.
For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur.
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.
War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
This war is not necessary. We are truly sleepwalking through history.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.