Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 12 (p. 94)
“War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.”
The judge
Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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“War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.”
Source: End Zone (1972), Ch. 16

Source: The Wisdom of Eleanor Roosevelt
Source: letter to Harry Truman, 22 March 1948

I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Context: War isn't civilized. War is failure. It's the ultimate result of a breakdown in public policy, and soldiers are the machines that handle that breakdown. In warfare, you're taught to do whatever you have to, to stay alive.

"The War Universe", taped conversation, first published in Grand Street, No. 37 (1991) http://openlibrary.org/b/OL7452886M/Grand_Street_37_(Grand_Street)
Context: This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.
Source: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter VII: The Rise of the Second Men; Section 3, “The Zenith of the Second Men” (p. 110)
“Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.”
Source: Rite of Passage (1968), Chapter 1 (p. 9).

Last words, 10/16/46. Quoted in "Justice at Nuremberg" - Page 506 - by Robert E. Conot - History - 1984

Source: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), P. 308