It was now just a question of time - and lives.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- In conflict, time and human lives become the essential costs measured in the balance.
- In plain terms
- War comes down to time and people's lives.
- What can you take from it?
- Time and life are the ultimate costs of war.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What is the true cost of a decision?
- Can time ever be recovered?
Another view
This view abstracts war's complexity into mere metrics.
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