It is to wonder how far humanity has come
from its humble beginnings when clan and tribal
competition spurred by the instinct for survival
fought to the death for possession of territory
and the scarce resources that would ensure
the continuation of life in a world of turmoil
and adaptation to an ever-evolving route to
civilization. A time when the establishment of
nations in the consolidation of territory still
focused on conquest and territorial control, a
time when even monarchs, members of the
nobility led their masses on the battlefield for
the greater glory of their cause and knowing
if they failed to appear their squads of fighting
men absent a courageous leader would absent
themselves from the battle. Leaders led to ensure
loyalty. On today's battlefields commanders
answer to a distant figure unwilling to leave his
palace to place his own life at risk,while urging
his servicemen to enact gross carnage on the enemy
to destroy and to loot, to rape and to murder.
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