That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.


Chapter 2 The Hand of God 137 (p. 32). - Culture series - Consider Phlebas (1987)

Iain Banks Quotes

That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from ...

That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from ...

That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from ...

That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from ...