Basil Liddell-Hart:
"The aim of a nation in war is to subdue the enemy's will to resist, with the least possible human and economic loss itself . . .
our goal in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will . . .
all such acts as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population are seen to be but means to that end; we are free to weigh the respective merits of each, and to choose whichever is most suitable and most economic,
i.e. that which will gain the goal with the minimum disruption of our national life during and after the war....
The destruction of the enemy's armed forces is but a means--and not necessarily an inevitable or infallible one--to the attainment of the real objective."
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