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"Tell me one operation of war which is moral...Sticking a bayonet into a man's belly, is that moral? Then they say. well, of course strategic bombing involved civiians. Civilians are always involved in major wars. After all, previous wars ended up in the besieging of major cities, and in besieging a city what was the idea? To cut off all supplies, and the city held out if it could until they'd eaten the last dog, cat, and sewer rat and were all starving, and meanwhile the besieging forces lobbed every missile they could lay their hands on into the city, more or less regardless of where those missiles landed, as and added incentive to surrender.
There is no significant difference between what Shalmaneser III did to Arzashku in 858 B.C. and what British Bomber Command and the United States 8th Air Force did to Dresden in 1945. Shalmaneser, being Assyrian, unquestionably took more pleasure in it, and the means of execution seem rather more exotic to us, but the ultimate consequences for the the victims were identical."
"No human beings can escape the category of potential enemy. Over 90 percent of all states that have ever existed have been destroyed and often their people with them."
Just a couple of excerpts taken from one book that speaks about the history of war and there are hundreds of books, if not thousands, about the history of war.
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