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** Also routinely subverted. Most if not all historians of the age are monks who like to condemn war every now and then and especially take note (and condemn) particular bloody battles. Even more so when its nobility who does a lot of the dying like Agincourt or the Battle of Worringen, where the male line of the Duchy of Luxembourg was nearly extinct.
* Some may argue that the purpose of physical sports (Gladiator fights, races, jousts, football, you name it) is to simulate the glory of war without all the horror.
* This was one of the key tenets of [https://web.archive.org/web/20200522101112/http://www.italianfuturism.org/manifestos/foundingmanifesto/ the Futurist Movement] of the early 20th century. [[World War I]] cured most of them of that notion.
** For a good number of them, it cured them of the notion in much the same way that a guillotine cures a sinus infection.
* During the [[World War II]], [[Winston Churchill]] attempted to stir a similar sentiment with his speeches, particularly before and during the Battle of Britain when the [[United Kingdom]] stood well and truly alone against [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] Nazi Germany. He was well aware that [[War Is Hell]], but war was the only way to bring on a glorious dawn and awaken the world from the Axis nightmare.
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