That’s why war – explicitly in Clausewitz, implicitly in Tolstoy – must reflect policy. For when policy reflects war, it’s because some high-level hedgehog – a Xerxes, or a Napoleon – has fallen in love with war, making it an end in itself. They’ll stop only when they’ve bled themselves bloodless. And so the culminating points of their offensives are self-defeat.
-John Lewis Gaddis
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