As best as I recall Proverbs mentions that God raises Warriors--and I've thought about that quite a bit, then recently realized that any "weapon", i.e., a lifeless inert instrument, by which harm or death might come to another human remains harmless until wielded by a human being, regardless of the actual intent of the person. War is "bloody hell" to quote some I came across as a young child; yet, this individual believed that his sacrifice and the sacrifice of others was necessary to eradicate Hitler and put an end to his reign of terror in Europe, west to east. He never regretted his contributions to that success; though it did change him. Sometimes the only thing that works is the violent push back when tyranny will not restrain itself. Finishing up my math PhD in catastrophe identification has revealed that very often the achievement and maintenance of a steady state process, think our peaceful world, requires an explosive, i.e., violent, push back along the boundaries, of the domain of definition where those boundaries might delineate any form of human excess. Thus, God does indeed raise Warriors, who are adept at the accomplishing of that push back--I hope someday to increase each of their probabilities for a safe and hopefully healthy return home. They have all honed their physical form to accomplish their task, as I have sharpened my mind to facilitate my objective. My father Clifford, adopted me after my biological father 1st Lt. Robert Howard Harlan, II died while flying as a co-pilot when his plane when in the Sea of Japan. To keep others from such pain, constantly propels me onward. Thank you once again for all you and all who are there at the National War College do to maintain our relatively beneficent life's existence, i.e., the commonly preferred steady state process.
Beautifully put, Cynthia....in fact what Clausewitz actually said is: Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln," which literally translated means, of course, means: "War is a mere continuation of politics by other means" !!!
First- I did not see the sunrise this morning, beautiful or not. And second- it's raining!!
As best as I recall Proverbs mentions that God raises Warriors--and I've thought about that quite a bit, then recently realized that any "weapon", i.e., a lifeless inert instrument, by which harm or death might come to another human remains harmless until wielded by a human being, regardless of the actual intent of the person. War is "bloody hell" to quote some I came across as a young child; yet, this individual believed that his sacrifice and the sacrifice of others was necessary to eradicate Hitler and put an end to his reign of terror in Europe, west to east. He never regretted his contributions to that success; though it did change him. Sometimes the only thing that works is the violent push back when tyranny will not restrain itself. Finishing up my math PhD in catastrophe identification has revealed that very often the achievement and maintenance of a steady state process, think our peaceful world, requires an explosive, i.e., violent, push back along the boundaries, of the domain of definition where those boundaries might delineate any form of human excess. Thus, God does indeed raise Warriors, who are adept at the accomplishing of that push back--I hope someday to increase each of their probabilities for a safe and hopefully healthy return home. They have all honed their physical form to accomplish their task, as I have sharpened my mind to facilitate my objective. My father Clifford, adopted me after my biological father 1st Lt. Robert Howard Harlan, II died while flying as a co-pilot when his plane when in the Sea of Japan. To keep others from such pain, constantly propels me onward. Thank you once again for all you and all who are there at the National War College do to maintain our relatively beneficent life's existence, i.e., the commonly preferred steady state process.
Beautifully put, Cynthia....in fact what Clausewitz actually said is: Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln," which literally translated means, of course, means: "War is a mere continuation of politics by other means" !!!