by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
The barracks occupy the top and brow of a very high hill. They are free from bog, have four springs which seem to be plentiful, one within twenty yards of the picket, two within fifty yards, and another within two hundred and fifty, and they propose to sink wells...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
We have found it necessary to take measures of increasing stringency, not only against enemy aliens and suspicious characters of other nationalities, but also against British subjects who may become a danger or a nuisance should the war be transported to the United...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
The killing of the innocent ought to be avoided when possible. This applies equally to a mother and daughter huddling in the basement of their home as it does to a conscript father and son huddling in a bunker on the frontline. Deliberate killing can only be justified...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
It was the Turnip Winter of 1916 which precipitated the German defeat in World War I. Civilian misery is lamentable, but it is preferable to wholesale slaughter. People recover from malnutrition and go on to procreate and prosper in happier times, but death is...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 29, 2015 | War
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. —Basil Liddell Hart. The Real War, 1930. All humanity being a giant extended family, fratricide must be kept to the absolute minimum....
