The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
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The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.
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Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.
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Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.
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As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
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