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Once, generals could accept the deaths… | blogjou

Mark Galeotti

The Weaponisation of Everything

p. 29
09 Apr 2023

Once, generals could accept the deaths...


Once, generals could accept the deaths of thousands in a single day’s carnage with, if not equuanimity, a conviction that this was what war mean. (While, as Lord Wellington is meant to have said when one of his artillery men had sight of Napoleon at Waterloo, ‘it is not the business of commanders to be firing upon one another’.) Now, things are different.