“The fact that wars ap­pear as irrational …”

“The fact that wars ap­pear as irrational may in fact tell us very little about the stupid­ity or unreasonableness of human beings and very much about the limits of our contemporary explanatory accounts.  The deficiency, in other words, may rest not with the soldiers or with those who order them into battle, but rather with the scholars who attempt to explain these actions.”