"Where no discipline is enforced in war a state of things results which resembles far more the wars recorded in Froissart, or Comines, or the thirty-years’ war, and the religious war in France, than the regular war of modern times. And such a state of things results speedily, too; for all growth, progress, and rearing, moral or material, are slow; all destruction, relapse, and degeneracy fearfully rapid." – Francis Lieber, "Guerrilla Parties Considered with Reference to the Laws and Usages of War," (1862).
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