About Mick Ryan
Futura Doctrina: Learning About, and Discussing, War and Strategic Competition
“Only the dead have seen the end of war. ”
While frequently misattributed to Plato, it was actually George Santayana who wrote these words in Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922). But the message is clear. War, unfortunately, is a core element of human existence in this planet.
If that is the case, should we not learn from previous wars in order to minimise their likelihood in future? Or, if such cataclysms are forced upon us, shouldn’t we learn as much as we can about winning them?