Across time, war repeats patterns—ambition, fear, ideology ignite; ordinary people pay the price. The same human impulses that drove spears into flesh at Troy or arrows at Agincourt still fuel missiles in the twenty-first century. The weapons change, the maps shift, the uniforms evolve, but the core remains constant: young men and women sent to kill and die for causes they rarely fully understand, while the architects of conflict remain distant from the mud, the blood, and the screams.
