The easy war. (Comment).(possible war against Iraq)

"If you want peace, understand war," the military historian B. H. Liddell Hart once wrote, and during the past century--some would say ever since Gen. Sherman's march through Georgia--that injunction meant anyone interested in peace needed above all to understand the practice of "total war."

Total war overflowed earlier boundaries. Instead of limited firepower aimed only at men in uniform, total war called for far greater levels of violence directed at civilians and soldiers alike, and at home meant all-out mobilization of economic resources, science, the ...

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