Post by daroyski on Oct 17, 2005 12:14:05 GMT 8
What is A.N.T.S?
stands for:
Airsoft
Neutralizing
Tactical
Squad
War, it is said, is a brutal way of settling differences among men.
That is true; and therein lies the fact which gives most serious pause to one who would study the subject philosophically, with an outlook upon nature at large. War is brutal - a natural habit of brutes, and of the whole realm of organized life below them, that wage war upon one another instinctively. Their natural life is one of endless conflict. They who justify war do so on the ground of its universal prevalence among creatures in a state of nature. It is brutal but natural, and man, being of nature, has his physical kinships with brutes and their lower allies.
Nevertheless, he recognizes that to many minds the force of the facts, as seen in nature, is not readily put aside; and that the universal war habit of organized beings, as it appears to have existed in all time. seems to place upon a higher plane, as in harmony with natural laws, those war-like habits and acts that have dominated human history. This, at least, gives an exceptional interest to a study, for the sake of comparison, of the war methods of those lower orders of living beings whose social organizations strongly suggest our own.
Among the foremost of these are ants, and ants, as an order, are war-like insects. The foragers carry their natural pugnacity into the field as isolated individuals, and show decided courage in the quest of food. Therein they are freebooters. Whatever falls in their way and they are able to possess, they take. This, as in the case of human brigands, often requires an appeal to force. An ant commune is as fair a scene of peaceful industry as a beehive; but everywhere in its vicinage "doth dogged war bristle his angry crest, and snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace."
stands for:
Airsoft
Neutralizing
Tactical
Squad
War, it is said, is a brutal way of settling differences among men.
That is true; and therein lies the fact which gives most serious pause to one who would study the subject philosophically, with an outlook upon nature at large. War is brutal - a natural habit of brutes, and of the whole realm of organized life below them, that wage war upon one another instinctively. Their natural life is one of endless conflict. They who justify war do so on the ground of its universal prevalence among creatures in a state of nature. It is brutal but natural, and man, being of nature, has his physical kinships with brutes and their lower allies.
Nevertheless, he recognizes that to many minds the force of the facts, as seen in nature, is not readily put aside; and that the universal war habit of organized beings, as it appears to have existed in all time. seems to place upon a higher plane, as in harmony with natural laws, those war-like habits and acts that have dominated human history. This, at least, gives an exceptional interest to a study, for the sake of comparison, of the war methods of those lower orders of living beings whose social organizations strongly suggest our own.
Among the foremost of these are ants, and ants, as an order, are war-like insects. The foragers carry their natural pugnacity into the field as isolated individuals, and show decided courage in the quest of food. Therein they are freebooters. Whatever falls in their way and they are able to possess, they take. This, as in the case of human brigands, often requires an appeal to force. An ant commune is as fair a scene of peaceful industry as a beehive; but everywhere in its vicinage "doth dogged war bristle his angry crest, and snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace."
