The modern traveller
by Hilaire Belloc · first published 1898
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Today, thanks to Mikhail Kalashnikov, everybody has the Maxim gun. Incidentally, that line is from a humor piece, "The Modern Traveller", by Hilaire Belloc.[1] Read chapter VI for the context. Having plenty of firepower does not help much in counterinsurgencies. There's nobody to aim it at. "Nation-building" from the outside has a success…
on “As Japan's population shrinks, bears and boars roam among schools and shrines” ↗Hillaire Belloc (1898): "The Modern Traveller" A Mutiny resulted. I never shall forget the way That Blood upon this awful day Preserved us all from death. He stood upon a little mound, Cast his lethargic…
on “To the Person Sitting in Darkness (1901)” ↗