Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.
War is the greatest failure of mankind.
The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.
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 not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.
For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
War is failure of diplomacy.
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.
War remains the decisive human failure.
War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.