With the increase in military conflict over the past 3 years, I thought I'd read up on the how, why & when of the whole known history of war.
So I've just finished Michael Mann's "On War". He writes about the causes of war and the irrational decisions of Emperors, kings, Presidents, and Dictators who commit men to combat....from the Punic Wars right through to the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. I wouldn't say it's an easy read, better suited to academic study, but nonetheless an interesting overview of this most violent expression of the human condition. In one form or another you can say all war has come about from nothing more fickle than male vanity.
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