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The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

A world without war is not in the cards.

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.