Jag tycker det blir mindre uppseendeväckande om man tänker sig att krig rent förenklat enbart är att framtvinga policybeslut med andra medel än enbart politiska.
Citat från den kände militärteoretikern Carl von Clausewitz"War is simply the continuation of political intercourse with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase 'with the addition of other means' because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs. The main lines along which military events progress, and to which they are restricted, are political lines that continue throughout the war into the subsequent peace."
