OP asked about getting from Tokyo to OsakaKyoto on local trains . That would be an insane choice it ' d take you all day with multiple connections . <| sep |> War has changed . It ' s no longer about nations , ideologies or ethnicity . It ' s an endless series of proxy battles , fought by mercenaries and machines . War , and its consumption of life , has become a welloiled machine . War has changed . ID tagged soldiers carry ID tagged weapons , use ID tagged gear . Nanomachines inside their bodies enhance and regulate their abilities . Genetic control . Information control . Emotion control . Battlefield control . Everything is monitored , and kept under control . War has changed . The age of deterrence has become the age of control . All in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction . And he who controls the battlefield , controls history . War has changed . When the battlefield is under total control , war . becomes routine . Edit It ' s quote from Metal Gear Solid 4 . Jeez you guys are uncultured .