Seventy years ago today, the most horrible war in human history started. I heard that at the Armistace for the First World War, Marshal Foch predicted the start of the Second World War, almost to the day. Perhaps as many as 70 million people died from all causes. Billions of pounds, franc, rubles, reichmarks, dollars and yen were spent. A total sum that might be as much as five trillion U.S. dollars in today's market. Tens of thousands of guns, tanks and planes have now turned to rust or were swollowed by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
"If a bloody battle is a horrible sight, then that is cause for paying more respect to war and not for letting the sword that we wear blunter and blunter by degree, from feelings of humanity, until someone steps in with one that is sharp and lops off the arm from our body." Clausewitz
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein
There's the rub.
Bookmarks