Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity.
Elaine Scarry (1985). “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World”, p.85, Oxford University Press
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