The Beauty of Warfare...

I start a new class tomorrow. It's called "War and conflict" and unfortunately it's only a 5 point class. Warfare though, especially ancient warfare, is a great interest of mine. It's something strangely beautiful about the way battles were planned and carried out before the introduction of modern weaponry. There are several appealing aspects of ancient warfare, but they can mainly be divided into two main categories; motion and invention. The motion aspect of it was developed to perfection by Alexander and his phalanx. That's just pure poetry on a battle field. The invention part of it is the creative ways that people used to cause each other injury. Such as catapulting red hot sand onto your enemies. Of all the things to get poured into your armour, I reckon probably red hot sand would be the least comfortable one. I went to the book shop yesterday to buy a few books on the subject of warfare and terrorism. The one that I'm really itching to start reading is John Keegan's "The history of warfare", despite what I heard about him spending most of the book slagging Clausewitz off. So yeah, now I'm off to indulge in violence and death. See ya.