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The purpose of war is to get the other side to give you what you want. Killing people is just a side-effect or method to accomplish your goals.
by daemin 10y ago
The purpose of war is to get the other side to give you what you want. Killing people is just a side-effect or method to accomplish your goals.
- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoIn the widest sense the purpose of war is profit.
- simonh 10y agoOnly for largely uselessly overblown interpretations of the term profit to mean any perceived gain or advantage, or incremental progress towards any goal whatsoever.
- daemin 10y agoWars were fought for honour, various slights or (diplomatic or personal) insults, lots of reasons, not all of them profitable. In general war is not profitable to the entities that wage them.