User:Inge Hoonte/the Shock of the Old
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- Regarding WWII, H.G. Wells wrote how in warfare, the Zeppelin and bombing aeroplane carried war straight over the civilians on the front line. War was no longer about populations, a group of people, fighting one-on-one against each other. There were now ways to bypass the middle man.
- George Orwell noted on H.G. Wells: "On the one side science, order, progress, internationalism, aeroplanes, steel, concrete, hygiene; on the other side war, nationalism, religion, monarchy, peasants, Greek professors, poets, horses."
- Basil Liddell Hart, military intellectual, 1932: "the progress of weapons has outstripped the progress of the mind"
- I think the romanticism, or the reluctance to embrace new technologies in warfare, is merely human, not necessarily emblematic of soldiers or the military in general.