11/25/2004

entry: #025:: Ground Control to Major Tom::

1116marine

" There is almost no human activity that is as intensely social as modern warfare >> When a military unit loses it internal cohesion and starts to fight as individuals there is such a radical and unfavorable change in the casualty ratio that it is almost always decisive >> Every general staff in the world since 1914 has known that the bravery of individual soldiers in modern war is about as essential as whether they are handsome..."
LEO CAWLEY