The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing practical to alter or deflect the impulse to destroy the enemy, which is central to the very idea of war.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
Some tech like medicine does reduce harm.
Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the …
The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in …
In war, science has proven itself an evil genius; it has made war more terrible than it ever was before. Man used to be content to slaughter his fellowmen on a…
'Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation, and our civilisation drives itself to extin…
War triggers human inventiveness at the most brilliant, because if you don't win your wars, your civilization disappears -Empire