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— Tacitus"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.
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