A Time for War
As an instrument of policy, war is a disaster. War is chaos and confusion. However strenuously rationalized as strategic it negates any coherent strategy. The imperious requirements of victory narrow freedom of action to a choice among evils. War invites corruption and subversion and demagoguery and deceit and causes nations to fail and fall, the frui…
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