Watching Red Cliff on TV5 and delighted to see that Kung Ming, the great military strategist of ancient China, is one of the lead characters. Most, if not all, Chinese costume epics are based on episodes from Romance of the Three Kingdoms. My altar of Kung Ming overlooks my computer work space as I am encoding this.

It is disheartening to realize that the creation of armies has always been a natural instinct in all societies all over the world.