It Is Simply Not True That War Is Solely A Means To An End, Nor Do People Necessarily Fight In Order To Obtain This Objective Or That. In Fact, The Opposite Is True: People Very Often Take Up One Objective Or Another Precisely In Order That They May Fight.

-Martin Van Creveld

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It Is Simply Not True That War

Martin Van Creveld

It Is Simply Not True That War Is Solely A Means To An End, Nor Do People Necessarily Fight In Order To Obtain This Objective Or That. In Fact, The Opposite Is True: People Very Often Take Up One Objective Or Another Precisely In Order That They May Fight.

Topic

War

Mean

Fighting

As History Since Hiroshima Shows, The Best, Perhaps The Only, Way To Curb War Is To Deter It With Such Overwhelming Force As To Turn It From A Struggle Into Suicide.

Suicide

War

Struggle