In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.