“…war is not the working of a living force on a dead mass, rather, because an absolute passion would not be warfare, thus it is always the collision of two living forces against one another…”
When someone is out of the fight, there’s no longer a collision of living wills, so there’s no war to speak of. Killing become a matter of pure policy, outside the dynamic of war.
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Read theory!
“Absolute suffering would not be warfare” -Carl von Clausewitz
[My latest](https://open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl/p/crimes-in-the-caribbean-and-the-definition?r=1ro41m&utm_medium=ios) on the strikes in the Caribbean, war crimes, and the definition of war (and why it’s important to have one)
“…war is not the working of a living force on a dead mass, rather, because an absolute passion would not be warfare, thus it is always the collision of two living forces against one another…”
When someone is out of the fight, there’s no longer a collision of living wills, so there’s no war to speak of. Killing become a matter of pure policy, outside the dynamic of war.