Ripples of Battle How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think

"Hanson is a fierce, uncompromising polemicist, yet if that were all he was, he would scarcely stand out in the crowd of partisans who can see little right in the Clinton administration and little wrong in the Bush administration. But what he brings to the public discussion--along with an unusually vigorous prose style and a remarkable erudition--is a philosophy of war not meant for the weak-kneed or fainthearted. Hanson does not celebrate war, but he accepts it as a fact of life, a part of the human condition that no amount of idealistic preaching or good intentions can will away. We are doomed to conflict and bloodletting.Hanson, Victor Davis is the author of 'Ripples of Battle How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think', published 2003 under ISBN 9780385504003 and ISBN 0385504004.