"War has been a fundamental part of human society since the beginning and most of the earliest history of humans deals with warfare."

And your point is what? Just because the human race has endured centuries of warfare does not make it a noble or glorius pursuit, nor is it one that should be taken lightly with topics such as this. To me it belittles the sacrifice made by those who did fight in a war.

I dont want to be in a war.

I also find it rather sad to choose what you would want to be in. I find it somewhat distasteful and disrespectful to those who did fight.

To me it all sounds like boyhood bravado.

Why on earth would you want to be a partisan or a German on the Eastern Front?

If you do want to then why not join the army or head off to a warzone?

"It certainly wasn't the wonderful past time that ancient people's portrayed it but don't fool yourself into believing completely the modern tales about warfare."

I prefer to talk to the men who took part in it. None of them see any glory in it, and your assertions seem better placed for propaganda or boys own comics. They did what had to be done. I doubt many wanted to go and fight, they did it because they had to.

In my opinion topics like this belittle those men and make history into a movie sideshow and to me, would not seem a topic that sits with the overall professionalism of this forum and its knowledgable membership.