Has War Really Changed?

Victor Davis Hanson "If our leaders today could consult great generals like the Roman Scipio Africanus or William Tecumseh Sherman — who won what were once near-hopeless wars — they might receive the following advice: Prepare the public to shoulder human and financial costs. Be candid about why enduring the horrors of war now is preferable to risking even costlier violence later. Talk always of winning, never leaving or quitting a war. Have no apologies for crushing the enemy. The quicker the enemy loses, the fewer get killed on both sides. Inform the public of the other side's losses just as you do your own. And be magnanimous to the defeated -- after the war, not during the fighting."