Mises Daily
Author:
David Gordon
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[ The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories • Edited by John Denson • Transaction Publishers, 1997 • 450 pages] The contributors to this outstanding volume have grasped a simple but unfashionable truth: war is a great evil. It entails horrible suffering and death on a large scale, and it has served as the principal means for the rise of the