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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
— General George S. Patton, Jr.
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This blunt military maxim reframes patriotic sacrifice, arguing that the goal of war isn't noble self-sacrifice but inflicting loss on the enemy instead. It's a deliberately unsentimental statement, stripping away romantic notions of dying for one's country in favor of practical, ruthless calculation.
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