"What It is Like to Go to War"

 I just received a book called "What It is Like to Go to War" by Karl Marlantes. I saw him interviewed a while back and thought he was a straight and thoughtful shooter. I hope to read the book and then get my younger son, who likes the military, to read it as well ... a prospect I don't hold out much hope for.

Anyway, these were the first two quotes I read when opening the book:

The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.                                    -- Spartan king quoted by Thucydides

Any fool learns from his mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. -- Otto von Bismarck.