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 [log in to unmask] 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."