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Speaker 0 (0s): Hey, you guys there. Hey, it's me, George. Look, I'm over here. Can you see me camouflage? Close your eyes there. What's going on everybody. Good morning or good afternoon or good evening. I don't know when you're listening to this, but whenever it is, I hope you're feeling good. You don't so much of the human experience is based on war. 

We've got a war on drugs, a war on poverty, a war in Afghanistan, world war one, world war II, the war of the roses, Vietnam, Korea. We are, we love war. We just love, love, love it. That being said, I thought we'd talk about strategies of war. 

I thought we'd kind of really try to dig in and understand what war is. I thought we would try to just dig down deep, get to the root of all this war. One way to do that is to consult with one of the greatest military strategists of all time. Mr. Carl Von Clausewitz, one of Napoleon's greatest generals. 

He wrote a book called on war. I thought we'd go over a little bit of it here just to see what you guys think. Maybe just to see what I think, maybe just to read a little, understand a little, that way we can all get along a little bit more. That being said, let's check it out. What is war introduction? 

I propose to consider first the various elements of the subject next its various parts or sections, and finally the whole and its internal structure. In other words, I shall proceed from the simple to the complex, but in war more than an any other subject, we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole four here more than elsewhere, the part and the hole must always be thought of together. 

Definition, let's define what war is. I shall not begin by expounding a pedantic literary definition of war, but go straight to the heart of 

Speaker 1 (3m 0s): The matter to the duel or is nothing but a duel on a larger scale, countless duals go to makeup war, but a picture of it as a whole can be formed by imagining a pair of wrestlers, each tries to physical force to compel the other, to do his will. His immediate aim is to throw his opponent in order to make him incapable of further resistance. War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy, to do our will force to counter opposing force equipped itself with the inventions of art and science attached to fours are certain self-imposed imperceptible limitations, hardly worth mentioning, known as international law and custom, but they scarcely weaken it force. 

That is physical force for moral force has no existence save as expressed in the state. And the law is thus the means of war to impose our will on the enemy is its object to secure that object. We must render the enemy powerless. And that in theory is the true aim of warfare. That aim takes the place of the object, discarding it as something, not actually part of war itself. 

So one was introduction to definition three, the maximum use of force kind hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed. And might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war pleasant, as it sounds, it is a fallacy and it must be exposed. War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst. 

The maximum use of force is in no way, incompatible with the simultaneous use of the intellect. If one side force, if one side uses force without compunction undeterred by the bloodshed, it involves while the other side refrains, the first will gain the