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The saying “Truth is the first casualty of war” is said to have originated in ancient Greece with the writings of playwright Aeschylus. For thousands of years, it has been recognized that most wars are wars of conquest, plunder, and destruction. War is an opportunity for the state and the ruling classes to prosper and gain power. “War is the health of the state,” Randolph Bourne said in his famous essay of the same name. Has there ever been a truer statement?

For the citizens, on the other hand, war means death or crippling injury, taxes, debt, sacrifice, impoverishment, the slavery of conscription, and the loss of many freedoms. The soldiers themselves always pay the highest price in any war, as Ludwig von Mises observed in Human Action.

During the Nuremburg trials, the notorious Hermann Göring declared that to get the public to acquiesce to war, “all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism. . . . It works the same way in any country.” Indeed, it does.

It has been twenty-eight years since the Mises Institute published The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories. After nearly three more decades of endless wars worldwide, it is time to revisit this topic. We will do that at our Revisionist History of War Conference at the Mises Institute on May 15–17 ([link removed]) .

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