Today's rant is comprised of a constant thought that I have - courage and the manner of warfare changed drastically throughout time: specifically how wars became massified, banalized and riddled with acts of cowardice.
I'm not favorable to wars in general, but some hold meaning and those only are justifiable. None of today's established conflicts has truly ideological meaning; the curtain of economics is always behind the bloodshed to some level.
True wars of freedom lay engraved in silent monoliths...men like William Wallace were true freedom fighters, that was a real warrior; sadly they don't belong in our time anymore, as wars are resolved by triggers and buttons for superficial reasons at best, not to mention the concept of freedom has lost its purity and became a tool of political propaganda to justify crucible, inhuman acts behind the scenes that take part in no report and are hardly ever unearthed.
Modern humanity suffers from a disease called cowardice - in medieval Japan men rose their swords and surrendered their lives to their opponents in a duel of heart and skill, it was a forge for the spirit, even for the one to fall, it was no vain death.
The number of casualities in conflicts were nowere as massive as today - no atom bombs, no ICBMs, no jammers; just a man, his sword and his courage and for the one that rose as victor, it was a deserved triumph, not a given one.
The conditions warriors endured and the causes for which they fought and shed blood, that makes them vastly superior to any modern soldier.
You can't anihilate your opponent hundreds of meters away with a blade, your foes weren't nameless back then, you knew their names, you looked into their eyes and from that you knew them, you knew their souls, even if it contained nothing but killing intent, those men communed with their foes as sparks flew; if it is indeed of the human nature to wage wars, that they would at least be waged like in the old days, wars with meaning, wars with strong hearted humans, true warfare begins and ends at a blade's length.