Fair enough. I'd agree that long-term, the causes and effects of a war matter more. They're just caused to occur largely (though not exclusively) by the effec

Fair enough. I'd agree that long-term, the causes and effects of a war matter more. They're just caused to occur largely (though not exclusively) by the effects on people's psyches of military action happening on the battlefield. Military history is an unpopular genre these days, and I think part of it is the whole "oh, you joined the military, you must have been stupid and had no other options" prejudice. Which is alive and well in well-educated places like here. My apologies. Who was the author? I'm curious. I took my courses via correspondence, and didn't have the chance to get a Masters (not that an MS in National Security and Strategic Studies would help in tech). But it always struck me how much Clausewitz is misinterpreted in popular culture as the "wars are politics by other means" guy, when he meant that as only one side of a Hegelian dialectic.