Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful one can wage a pitiless war but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
After every major conflict – World War I World War II Korea Vietnam the fall of the Soviet Union – what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
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The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.
