In pseudohypertrophic paralysis, the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

[…] from the pyramids and the catacombs of Egypt both mummied and unmummied crania have been taken, of still higher antiquity, in perfect preservation; […]

So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly inreconcilable truths -- that war is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly.

The right-wing paramilitary's offensive against the Marxist guerrillas failed because they did not know the terrain well enough.