Battle Without End: The casualties of Verdun

Weekly Standard ^ | March 14, 2016 | Geoffrey Norman

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The social costs of modern warfare are rarely take into account and awareness of them rarely breaks through the crust of tales of heroic exploits, strategy and blame casting. But what resulted after WWI and WWII was a generation of youth raised without fathers.

We often hear of the “generation gap” or “rebellious youth” yet rarely understand that this socially accepted norm was not always the case. After WWI you had the “lost generation” of devil may care hedonism and lack of morality which became the “roaring 20’s”, while in Weimar Berlin, libertine excess defined the destruction of a great nation and led directly to the rise in popularity of Hitler and the Nazis.

Particularly after WWII, fatherless families led to the phenomenon of “juvenile delinquency” which began to tear the fabric of our society apart and directly fed into radicalism and the Viet Nam war protest and pacifist movement that haunts us today.

And, of course, WWI gave us the Bolshevik revolution, the Cold War and anti-American cynical liberalism today.

Who to blame? Monarchy and aristocracy, the same psychology of exploitation and empire building that lives on today in the form of the Wall St. and City of London economic aristocracies, enemies of our Revolution.