Challenge #04693-L309: Combat Hypocrisy

If war is diplomacy by violence, then the currency of exchange is in the bodies of the youth. And so a General must make his bitter calculus, choosing which men to hurl at the enemy defenses in the grim hope that the righteous side is victorious. -- Deathshead419

The best kind of war, say many philosophers, is the one you don't have to fight. Many war hawks have ignored this wisdom and prefer to throw fighting youth at the enemy until one side or the other runs out. When it comes to the biggest army wins, only one has consistently won with a smaller number of soldiers. According to many, he cheated by being an assassin. According to many, he should have hired one like any decent lord of his era would do.

As for all the others, they were slow to learn the important difference between tactics and strategy.

One such example came in the repeated attempts to conquer the Wyldewood. A deep forest that was the realm of Wood Elves and Rock Elves, with hidden cravasses and sudden spikes of stone. There were whispers that they shaped strange beasts within the labyrinthine depths. Nightmares made flesh. Some whispered that they shaped the very land around luckless adventurers that stumbled into their territory. Nobody knew for sure because, once they went in, they never came out again.

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