Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.
Reality, War
Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.
War, Man, Ignorance
In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.
War
I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to accept that in fact the war consisted precisely of this stasis.
Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The soldiers had lost conviction long ago. Now they lost confidence.
Victory, War, Confidence
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