I'm sure some of you have heard of this somewhere before.

"War is a continuation of politics by other means." - Von Clausewitz.

Yes, the purpose of war is to serve a political end, but the true nature of war is to serve itself.

In other words, the soldier who is most likely to win the war is the one most willing to part company with the politicians and ignores everything except the destruction of the enemy.

But in a nuclear war, the true enemy cannot be defeated. Because in my humble opinion, in a nuclear war, the true enemy is war itself.