[DeFault User]

...while experience has shown that military power can solve only military problems, not political ones.

Yeah, the Ameican Revolution was only a military conflict. Sure. When all else fails, war is the final political solution.

Obviously, military power is not the answer to everything, but the author sees the power principally in a negative light.

[dark_lord]

"War is not merely a political act, but also a political instrument, a continuation of political relations, a carrying out of the same by other means."

--Karl von Clausewitz, On War (1833)