"“Are you going to see if history can repeat itself? And are you setting me up to take the fall if it does? It can’t be your fault, after all.” By you he didn’t mean Abell’s alone, but all the officers in Philadelphia who thought of war as theory and maps and not as cordite and burning barrels and mangled men. They were good at what they did. Because they were, they thought they knew everything there was to know about the business of organized slaughter. Morrell had a different, and lower, opinion."