Replacement Marines

A problem historians have with writing accounts of war is that their readers already know how the story ends; therefore, the events seem inevitable. If the history of war were written, it would include its actualities where the principles of strategy and tactics and the absurdity of war are ridiculously simple; and any theory that disregards these factors overlooks the more significant part of the nature of war itself. Nevertheless, it is these facts that make war so difficult to comprehend that