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January 14, 2011
Trials: Money, Guns and Budgets.
War is the last of all things to go according to schedule.
-- Thucydides (460 BC - 395 BC) in The History of the Peloponnesian War.
Spartan Woman Giving a Shield to Her Son, 1805, Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier. In the lore and legend of Sparta, when a son left home for the armed forces, his mother said: "Fight well and fairly. Return with your shield or on it."
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at January 14, 2011 11:59 PM