"War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations … war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means."
— War

January 1, 1970

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Karl von Clausewitz, On War, trans. O. J. Matthijs Jolles (1943), book 8, chapter 6, p. 596. Originally published in 1833.