FYI, armed or otherwise violent combat is not the only madness of war...come to think of it, it is just a (and get this) small necessary part.
Are you sure about that?
Because Im feeling pretty certain thats a morally tenuous position
at best.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill