Nice article. I think you should read Clausewitz’ book and see where he dovetails with your argument. Distilling him down to basics though is “war” is use of force to compel your enemy to do your will. He also lays out the spectrum from wars of limited aims and goals to unlimited war at the top end designed to completely (and he meant completely) destroy the enemy. The closest we ever probably got was WWII in the Pacific Theater if the Japanese didn’t capitulate after the atomic bombings.
Nice article. I think you should read Clausewitz’ book and see where he dovetails with your argument. Distilling him down to basics though is “war” is use of force to compel your enemy to do your will. He also lays out the spectrum from wars of limited aims and goals to unlimited war at the top end designed to completely (and he meant completely) destroy the enemy. The closest we ever probably got was WWII in the Pacific Theater if the Japanese didn’t capitulate after the atomic bombings.