Nic Fields

Polybios (12.25g.l) once wrote that it was nigh on impossible for a man lacking in the experiences of warlike pursuits to write about war. The same could certainly be said of the tactical component of warfare, the battle. It is within the arena of the battlefield that the nameless soldier witnesses the greatest violence in war. For him it is a wildly unstable physical and emotional environment: a world of boredom and bewilderment, of triumph and terror, of anger and angst, of courage and cowardice. It is a chaotic world that most of us are fortunately unfamiliar with.