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."