However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast attached to the neck of living prey. This is not an idly chosen figure of speech. War spreads and perpetuates itself through a dynamic that often seems independent of human will. It has, as we like to say of things we do not fully understand, 'a life of its own.


Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War (ed. Granta Books, 2011) - ISBN: 9781847083845


However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast...

However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast...

However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast...

However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast...