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Monday, July 16, 2012

Reminisce on vanity of Nations!

These were the famous words of soldiers marching into Russia singing:
Let everything go to pieces, We march on
For today Germany is ours;
Tomorrow the whole world!
These have taken from the book "Why Nations go to war" by John G. Stoessinger.
What happened in that war, its catastrophes are explicitly known by everyone today. And i was just imagining that sense of profound vanity that brought Hitler and his subservient a scourging defeat.

4 comments:

M Umer Toor said...

so what are the main reasons nations go to war for?

Unknown said...

The book is basically based on 7 case studies and at the end it has concluded. I have read three uptill now; World War I, Hitler's attack on Russia, and Korean War. In these case studies the writer has deliberately concluded that personalities on whom the decisions depend are majorly responsible for the wars. It claims that the individualistic endeavors and personal thought has greatly influenced the wars in the past. For example he says that "It was this childlike single-mindedness that made Hitler's attack on Russia so utterly destructive and so difficult to comprehend."

M Umer Toor said...

biological reasons can explain and moral impulses...

Hassan Habib said...

yes it will be more likely to say "blind/deceived moral impulses"