"We live in a time when 'war' is on everyone's lips ... if their talk be only about the prevention of war. ... They talk much *about* war, but rarely do they talk *of* it - as a subject so serious as to be worth the serious study of every thinking man and woman. ... For the failure to treat it as a branch of scientific knowledge, responsibility lies as much on [those] of learning as on [those] of war. ... The study of war as a branch of knowledge requires the method of work that prevails in a University as well as the attitude of mind which is inculcated there. But it is not likely that these needs will be fulfilled until [scholars] change their attitude of mind towards war, and learn to regard it as a branch of knowledge worthy of exploration."

        -- B. H. Liddell Hart, "The Ghost of Napoleon", 1934