Loki wrote:
Patton was a realist. You don't win by dying for your country, you win by making the enemy die for his country. If you have not already done so, you should read The Art of War by Sun Tzu. (There are several spellings of his name. ) Twenty-five hundred years later, everything he said is still true.
The Art of War with annotations is the interpretation that is the best and most readily understood. Ties change but people do not.