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I’m certainly not recommending every book about war ever written, or even every book I’ve read on the subject, but instead a collection of the most meaningful. What’s the point? What matters is what we can take from them and apply to our own lives and society. They do not - despite what the History Channel and school teachers try to make you think - pertain to flanking movements, or dates, or locations. Each book is about a different civilization, a different set of tactics, a different cause. This is a post about the canon of books about war. We must understand and respect the darkness and the consequences: pain, death, evil, greed. It is death, fear, power, love, adrenaline, sacrifice, glory, and the will to survive.Īs Virgil put it, “the sword decides all.” We must learn how: the strategy, the motivation, defenses. The study of war is the study of life, because war is life in the rawest sense. A new generation has come home and has written (and is still writing) powerful books about the counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. The American Empire is no different - our men came home and wrote about the Civil War, about the Spanish-American War, about WWI, about WWII. Rome was built by war and literature, and the world has been influenced by that ever since. Thucydides, our first great historian, wrote about the Peloponnesian War - the great war between Sparta and Athens. Homer’s epic poems are about war - first, ten years of battle against Troy and then ten years of battle against nature and the gods. Some of our most powerful literature is either overtly about war or profoundly influenced by it (e.g.
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The greats have been writing and reading about war - its causes, its effects, its heroes, its victims - since the beginning of written text. But in it, men are often brave, loyal, and selfless. War is often the result of greed, stupidity, or depravity.
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Yet, paradoxically, it is in war that men - individual men - often show the very best of themselves. War is unquestionably mankind at his worst. Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ryan Holiday.