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The first casualty when war comes is truth (Rudyard Kipling)
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The first casualty when war comes is truth

Rudyard Kipling

an English short-story writer, poet and novelist (1865−1936), chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children, best known for The Jungle Book and Kim, one of his short stories was made into a film The Man Who Would Be King starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine, was one of the most popular writers in England, recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how the British Empire was experienced
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