The Clausewitz Collection (merged thread)

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For example, MLK or Ghandi could well have opted for violent rather than non-violent methods to address the purpose for their operations. Similarly AQ could have and still could, adopt non-violent tactics to address its purpose. The tactics chosen are important, as the shape the activities employed. But it is the underlying purpose that must be understood to shape how those activities are designed and employed so as to actually affect the root causes of opposition rather than simply flogging away at the symptoms.

CvC's fundamental definition of war is wrong IMO it isn't just the use of Force to obtain the objective but The use of Force or Fraud (Subversion)to obtain your objective. That is where CvC breaks down in trying to apply it to Modern Warfare/UW.