To: neverdem
British historian and strategist B. H. Liddell Hart said many years ago that the object of war is to produce a “better state of peace” at a reasonable cost in blood and treasure.
The object of war is to destroy the enemy. Period.
2 posted on
08/21/2013 12:49:42 PM PDT by
Bratch
To: Bratch
Damned straight and we have not won any war since we stopped doing that after WWII. The only way to nation build is to so destroy the enemy... to so destroy their infrastructure that when American troops roll in with medicine, water and food... the enemy is so grateful to be taken care of that he readily accepts his defeat.
LLS
4 posted on
08/21/2013 1:11:29 PM PDT by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
To: Bratch
That approach worked pretty well with the establishment of the armistice ending the First World War, didn’t it?
6 posted on
08/21/2013 1:27:19 PM PDT by
bagman
To: Bratch
Peace is when your enemy refuses to die for his cause.
12 posted on
08/21/2013 3:01:50 PM PDT by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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