Martin Van Creveld: It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

-- Martin Van Creveld


		Name: Martin Van Creveld Type: Historian Nationality: Israeli Birth: March 5, 1946

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