Interesting that Veritas was female and hid in the bottom of a well, hard to find.  The name stands for 'truth'.

Very cool name to use on your handle.  Veritas was not the God of war.    There is no reason to believe that 'truth' (the shy and elusive one), would do well in conflict with power.   Truth is difficult, elusive, hard to find.   It's a lot easier to get a big ram and just knock down the door with power.   (The Japanese leadership debated Pearl Harbor for weeks, in frustration they caved to the allure of the attack.   That decision didn't work out in the long term, they did not find truth).   

Action oriented Americans tire of the hard work it takes to find truth.    Our substitution is the choice of power to lead.

We have a broken political design corrupted by our pursuit of personal power/wealth.     We seldom look for Truth before setting a course of action.   Truth is just tooooo hard for most people.   Truth loses to twitter.