Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear.
John KeeganThe great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
John KeeganI don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
John Keegan