The Blackness of Insanity or Misremembering in the Fog of War
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Ares II
[In a battle-scene engraved on the shield of Achilles]: And Ares led an army of men, and Pallas Athene. These were gold, both, and golden raiment upon them, and they huge in their armour, being divinities, and conspicuous from afar.
- Homer, Iliad 18. 516 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic 8th Century B.C.) -
Ares VI
Ares, to gory strife he speedeth, wroth with foes, when maddeneth his heart, and grim his frown is, and his eyes flash levin-flame around him, and his face is clothed with glory of beauty terror-bent, as on he rusheth: quail the very gods.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 7. 400 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic 4th Century A.D.) -
Ares V
Straight from Olympus down Ares darted, swift and bright as thunderbolt terribly flashing from the mighty hand of Zeus.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 1. 923 ff (trans. Way) (Greek epic 4th Century A.D.) -
Ares IV
[In a battle-scene engraved on the shield of Herakles]: And on the shield stood the fleet-footed horses of grim Ares made gold, and deadly Ares the spoil-winner himself. He held a spear in his hands and was urging on the footmen: he was red with blood as if he were slaying living men, and he stood in his chariot. Beside him stood Deimos (Fear) and Phobos (Flight), eager to plunge amidst the fighting men.
- Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 191 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic 8th or 7th Century B.C.) -
Ares I
Ares made play in his hands with spear gigantic and ranged now in front of Hektor and now behind him. Diomedes of the great war cry shivered with fear as he saw him.
- Homer, Iliad 5. 592 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic 8th Century B.C.) -
Operation Fishbowl Starfish Prime, Checkmate, Bluegill, Kingfish & Tightrope, 1962
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
- Otto von Bismarck -
Operation Hardtack I & II, 1958
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
- Niccolo Machiavelli -
Operation Plumbbob, 1957
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
- Sun Tzu -
Operation Newsreel, Teak & Orange, 1958
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Operation Argus & Yucca, 1958
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy