Haunted by a Red Spectre – Dark Forces threaten Nepal by Peter Tobin

“That is why a visionary who has armed force on his side has always won, while unarmed even your visionary is always a loser.”

(Machiavelli, The Prince, 1613, p.23, Penguin ed.)

“One of the things historians admired about the Achaean leader Philopoemen was that even in peacetime he thought of nothing but military strategy and when he was in the country with his friends he would stop