Defence
Sir, —It is interesting to see Mr George Mallaby blaming Cromwell’s army tor tee prejudice
against the professional soldier. I am afraid the prejudice is far older and more universal than that. Even Machiavelli could write in 1520: “War being a profession by which men cannot live honourably at all times, it is not to be taken up as a trade... for he will never be thought a good man who takes upon him an employment by which, if he would reap any profit at any time, he is obliged to be false, and rapacious, and cruel, and to entertain several other qualities that are not consistent in a good man; nor can any man (great or small), who makes . war his profession, be otherwise than vicious; because . . . they are necessitated either to prevent or obstruct peace; and neither of those two ways are practicable to an honest man.”— Yours, etc., L.A.E. July 4, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28321, 5 July 1957, Page 3
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