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November 02, 2011
Money, Guns, Schedules, Budgets.
War is the last of all things to go according to schedule.
-- Thucydides (460 BC - 395 BC) in The History of the Peloponnesian War.
"Spartan Woman Giving a Shield to Her Son", 1805, Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier.
In the lore and legend of Sparta, when a son left home for the armed forces, his mother said: "Fight well and fairly. Return with your shield or on it."
Posted by JD Hull at November 2, 2011 02:59 AM