Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war. (Wendell Berry)

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

Wendell Berry

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