Warfare as the production of an endless stream of blood
Richard A. Koenigsberg
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Rudolf Hess said (in Baird, J. W., 1990): "The stream of blood which for Germany is eternal — the sacrifice of German men for their Volk is eternal — therefore Germany will also be eternal."

Which reminds me of General Douglas MacArthur's statement that he made in his Farewell Speech of May 12, 1962: "Only the dead have seen the end of war." 

Modern warfare has little to do with human evolution or male "aggression." What's more, war is not undertaken to achieve practical objectives. Rather, warfare seeks to produce an "endless stream of blood." 

Perpetual suffering, continual death, eternal sacrifice: this is the essence of the warfare dynamic: a human institution whose purpose is to establish the immortality of the group.

Germans Nazis understood this better than anyone. Hitler knew that the purpose of war was to sacrifice (kill) his own soldiers, German civilians, and many other classes of human beings. More than any person in history, he kept the blood flowing--on and on and on (and on).

The evocation of the flow of blood continues today. We historians are part of the dynamic (Michael Vlahos says that the "History Channel" should be called the "Hitler Channel"). To the extent that we write and watch films and think about Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust, we perpetuate the stream of blood that constitutes the "eternity" of the Reich.

My objective as a scientist is to convey the dynamic or causal relationship linking warfare to the desire for eternal suffering and endless loss. The essence of war is the production of a never-ending stream of blood conferring immortality upon the group.