Jim Neel

“War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is
based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.”

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz, Vom Kriege, 1831

Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quartered with the hands of war,
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds,
And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these
things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

King lames Bible, Matthew 24:6

“Male leaders are celebrated for their successes, while their excesses are typically excused
as the necessary and expected price of masculine ambition.”

Kara Cooney, The Woman who would be King, 2014

Come you masters of war
You that build the big guns
You that build the death planes
You that build all the bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks

You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly

Bob Dylan, Masters of War, 1963