The Abyss Of War

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it. Carl von Clausewitz

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. Carl von Clausewitz

War is politics by other means. Carl von Clausewitz

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others. Carl von Clausewitz

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it. Carl von Clausewitz

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance. Carl von Clausewitz

War is political targetting a society to mass kill their men and women that protect their society.

When the soldiers are murdered, then the "winning military" murderer the men.

When the men are murdered, then women are targetted to be murdered.

When the women are murdered, then elderly and children are targeted in war for abuse and to inflict as much severe psychological trauma on the young, to "teach them a lesson."

War is to humiliate and annihilate a people.

War is to showcase to other societies, "you step out of line and challenge such power, you will be humiliated and murdered."

War shifts from strategic objectives to a means of asserting dominance, humiliation, and inflicting maximum psychological damage on a society.

War pulls societies into extreme violence, chaos, and moral corruption.

War has layers of darkness that drags the losing society into a degradation of human dignity, a breakdown of societal norms, and the vanquished question their culture, their identity, the hatred against them, and why they are about be extinguished through the mass killing of war.

"In war, truth is the first casualty." ~ Aeschylus