<p>Thanks. I didn’t mean to be so harsh, but it is irritating how much, on all sides of a discussion, epigrammatic miscitations can be sprinkled like incantations. I was particularly hoping that this elliptical quote was not being relied on at West Point or Annapolis to buttress a view that was not the author’s. Mill was certainly strong enough without the slippery excising of his qualifiers to the virtue of war. </p>
<p>That said, we should all be grateful that we have officers trained at the academies, and are not relying on the generic Ivy League graduate to lead our troops, in war or peace.</p>