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Not in the eyes of the front-line soldiers of 1917 and especially in the cynical and bitter British. In their eyes, and this is what Wilfred Owing is trying to tell his readers, those British soldiers saw "dying for one's country" as simply a means by which the "greater men" tricked others into...

"Well, you'd better make sure that they're a man and a woman." Professor William Kaufmann from the RAND Corporation "That Old Lie." Wilfred Owen, 1917, in his poem 'Dulce et Decorum Est.'

Or. "Don't worry about snipers boys! They can't hit an elephant at this dist . . . . . . ." General John Sedgwick, Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

Possibly apocryphal but in the same vein .. . . "My left is retreating, my right has broken. My center is in disarray. The situation is excellent, I will attack." General Ferdinand Foch.

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war. French Field Marshal Joffre Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and...

"Decide what we need to do to win quickly and decisively. If we are prepared to do it, do it. Otherwise walk away." General Curtis Emerson LeMay on the developing Vietnam situation 1960. "If we do what you are proposing, we will end up fighting a war of attrition in the jungle and that is a...