“The military mind must limit its thinking to be able to function at all.
Thus, in talking to a naval officer who had won a target competition
with big naval guns, we asked, ‘Have you thought about what happens
in a little street when one of your shells explodes, of the families torn
to pieces, a thousand generations influenced when you signaled Fire?’
‘Of course not,’ he said, ‘Those shells travel so far you couldn’t possibly
see where they land.'”

– John Steinbeck,
   Sea of Cortez, p. 40, (1941)