War Is a Racket (1933)
The tragedy is that poor unfortunate grunts only get to know it&#x27;s a racket after it&#x27;s too late - when half of them are already dead.<p>Unfortunately, it seems to be a chararistic of the human condition that learning about war is a slow prossess and that the horrors of experiencing it cannot passed down from one generation to the next.<p>Experience gathered over millennia has demonstrated that it&#x27;s essentially impossible to teach recruits before they enter the military that war is not only a racket but also it will be the most horrible and devastating experience of their lives.<p>The fact is, it&#x27;s impossible to put an old head onto young shoulders.