The enemy, no more willing to be shot than was his opponent, was rarely seen, only fleetingly if at all. - S.L.A. Marshall

We are reluctant to admit that essentially war is the business of killing, though that is the simplest truth in the book.

The familiar and always popular warnings against the dangers of a growth of militarism among our people are raised anew by leaders who never having served in their country's uniform, are loath to recognize that those who do so may have a devotion to the nation's welfare and a love of its free institutions quite equal to their own.

Truly then, it is killing men with kindness not to insist upon physical standards during training which will give them maximum fitness for the extraordinary stresses of campaigning in war.