Just finished reading a book
Air Battle Force
by Dale Brown
© 2003 Harper Collins

which reveals the Jacksonian attitude to war, and lots of other things that shed light on some of what has been discussed in threads of this sort here. It's set a few years into the current future.

Must have been written just before the hostilites started in Iraq. A bit sad though, it states (from memory) that the last casualties were half a dozen accidentally killed a few hours after "the war was over".

The basic premise of the books in this series is that youc an win any war if you have overwhelming force. (The author is pushing the wagon of robot warplanes and "Tin Men" - fighters in battle armour with rail guns.) Of course, history has shown since even befoer the Roman empire - the Greeks (Alexander) and Babbylonians, etc, that while you may win wars with that philosophy, the "peace" afterward doesn't

Robin