I've just started reading The Soul of Battle by Victor Davis Hanson. It focuses on three great generals. Epaminondas, William Tecumsah Sherman and George S. Patton. The primary thesis of the book is that there is no army so deadly as the aroused citizenry of a democracy called up to destroy an evil enemy. I am struck by the similarity of his analysis to the wars described in the Book of Mormon, especially the ones involving Moroni, a citizen soldier who rallied his people with a banner called the Title of Liberty. He was a military innovator, as well, although unlike the others, he did not seek to destroy the enemy's ability to make war in the future. It is one of the keys of our present situation as well as those described in the book that the best soldiers are those who are "inspired by a better cause," their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and, when they are convinced that they are fighting against an evil force, they are quite deadly.