Nothing new about this. Clausewitz wrote in On War (1873- in English)
"War is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a
continuation of political activity by other means" or "war is
politics carried on by other means".
James Brothers, RPA
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On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:18, Walter Waddell wrote:
> For those of you who can withstand a provocative, reasoned
> challenge to your beliefs (whatever persuasion they may be) about
> War, Peace, and the Military Arm of Foreign Policy, I invite your
> attention to the work of Paul Seabury, Professor of Political
> Science, University of California, Berkeley and Angelo Codevilla,
> Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford,
> California: entitled "War - Ends & Means", 1989, ISBN 0-465-09067-2
> (cloth); ISBN 0-465-09068-0 (paper) - (hardly hotbeds of right
> wing, warmongering).
>
> On the its first page of the "Foreword", you'll find this: "War is
> essentially a clash of purposes; only incidentally does it become a
> clash of arms."
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