Yeah, war's horrible and it can be a lot of "meaningful" fun. Read some of John Keegan's historical studies of war. And I ain't moving in an Ardrey-ite (Little Ardrey sez...) vector. "Bonzo sleeps at Olduvai, doo dah, doo dah" (apologies to Stephen Foster who plagarized it from someone of the Bones & Tambo persuasion...)