The Business of War

ISBN: 9781330498996 出版年：2016 页码：354 Isaac F Marcosson Forgotten Books

In the glamour Of battle heroism the world loses sight Of the mechanics of war. It is more thrilling to have an emotion about a forlorn trench hope led to victory than to hear about a supply column that reached the front under a storm of shells. Yet the courage of the teamsters who face death with only the reins in their hands is fit to rank with the valour of the fighting men armed with guns. War has become a business. It is the world's supreme task at this moment. Business as usual has gone into the scrap heap along with many other illusions that clogged effort and begot a costly Optimism in the early days of the conflict. The one definite work of civilization is to win the war. The path to victory is through organization.