An iambic pentameter?
Hardly. More like something scribbled by Ferlinghetti.
man, that is one fine piece of writing.. thanks for sharing that.
Prior to World War I, every country that could built battleships, and those that could afford it, built fleets of battleships. Eventually the concern was that the contest was fooling nations into projecting power aggressively against each other, leading to war.
Today, though not quite as boldly, a similar thing is happening with warship submarines. There are about 436 attack submarines in the world today, with 39 ballistic missile submarines.
Nuclear submarines do not dominate, nor are the most advanced, because diesel-electric submarines that are very quiet have been the technological cutting edge for some time.
A little gassing changed that viewpoint. People are enthusiastic about the prospect of war before the blood starts to flow, and the only ones who remain so tend to be people for whom war is something that happens to other people. For Hitler, WWII was something that happened to other people until April 1945. By 1 May it wasn't a problem anymore.