THIS WEBSITE is a composite of words and images framed to answer some fundamental questions about war. Among those questions might be: What is war? Where does it come from? Why does it fascinate human beings from one generation to the next? How can the results of a single battle affect history for decades or centuries afterward? Can anything good come of war?

Responses comprise a mosaic of excerpts taken from outside material. For each passage copied from a published source there is an attribution. These citations can serve as a starting place for readers who wish to pursue a topic into levels of scholarship that lie beyond those of this anthology. Online attributions can also give writers of original material a chance to discover any misuse of their work. The same medium that enables wholesale repackaging of intellectual property also enables writers to learn about it and take action.

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