What a joke! The idea of warfare as "male aggression." The First World War conveys the reality of "combat" as massive, abject, self-destruction. Self-destruction on a monumental scale, almost beyond human comprehension.

What a joke! The idea that each nation was trying to "win" the war...by asking men day after day, week after week, year after year, to run into artillery shells and machine gun-fire.

"All the capacity of industrial society—straining at the bit for destruction. One of the French soldiers called it extermination. I call it routinized, mechanized genocide: The genocide of people on their own citizens." Professor Weiner at 22:05 of the video. First World War Casualties