Eighth Note to “The Making of Russian Strategy”

In essence, conflict and war amount to the agglomeration of moral, intellectual and psychological forces which then concentrate or converge at a “decisive point” and is then aimed at the “dislocation” or “dissolution” of the enemy. In turn, strategy and tactics are the instruments or the means of achieving that ultimate aim. Arguably, we need to define conflict and war in order to put it into context and to understand it.