Tell me something controversial or interesting about war.
If we refrain from ideological objectives in war (some people think they are mere pretenses anyway), why would that make the enemy do the same? We still are his enemy, we still come to murder and steal.We would be better to follow the Byzantine path of Intelligence and Diplomacy with War only as a last resort and only for material objectives rather than ideological objectives.
This would mean leaving our enemies with no one to fight except themselves - and we could rely upon that.
If we refrain from ideological objectives in war (some people think they are mere pretenses anyway), why would that make the enemy do the same? We still are his enemy, we still come to murder and steal.
Appearances are deceptive.And it seems you agree with Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam who taught all war is evil, but who might have thought that sometimes it is necessary to choose the lesser of two evils, and that war should be our last resort except in the case of genocide, where it should be our first.
That sounds different...And today we notice our enemy kills themselves more than they kills us, so withdrawal from the lands of our enemy, and building our own societies, may serve us as well as it did Byzantium.
We would be better to follow the Byzantine path of Intelligence and Diplomacy with War only as a last resort and only for material objectives rather than ideological objectives.
This would mean leaving our enemies with no one to fight except themselves - and we could rely upon that.
Isn't a belief in obtaining material an ideology?
War, despite all the great evil in evokes upon the world is largely inevitable.
Tell me something controversial or interesting about war.