Martin Van Creveld - It is simply not true that war is solely a mea

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.

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van Creveld, Martin. The Transformation of War. Free Press, 1991, p. 218.

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This was not the ravings of a right wing extremist. It was normative. This book was a best seller in Germany. This quotation illustrates the mentality of the conservative, militarist, culture that dominated Germany at the time.