| A | B |
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| The Real Mission of the Air Force | We blow things up! |
| Assumptions of War | We will have wars in the future and they will happen at the worst possible time against the worst possible enemy in the worst possible place. |
| Clausewitz's first definition | War is an act of violence to comel our enemy to do our will |
| Clausewitz's second definition | War is politics with the addition of other means to achieve political objectives |
| AFDD definition of war | War is a struggle bewteen rival political groups or nation-states to attain competing political objectives. |
| Enduring Truth #1 | War is an instrument of national policy |
| The Political Side of War | War is the last resort of policy or the failure or policy |
| The political objective or war | To overcome the enemy's hostile will and ability and achieve a better state of peace |
| Enduring Truth #2 | War is a complex and chaotic human endeavor |
| Military Side of War | War is a human enterprise - fierce emotions involved |
| 3 Factors dominating war | Fog, Friction and Chance |
| Elements of War (8) | Motives, Objectives, Participants, Means Used, Level of Violence, Scope of War, Asymmetry |
| Motives (8) | Secular Ideology, Ethnic/tribal hatred, Religion, Territory, Economic gain, Revenge, Fear and a Mixture of them all. |
| Objectives | Total - political overthrow/extermination, Limited - concessions |
| Enduring Truth #3 | War is a clash of opposing wills |
| Participants | State vs State, Groups within a State (civil war), Non-State entities (PLO, IRA, KLA) |
| Means Used | Weapons of mass destruction (nuclear biological and chemical), Conventional, Tactics (guerrilla, terrorism) |
| Levels of Violence | Total War (destroy the enemy), Limited (Restrain forces being used) |
| Scope of War | Global (the Great War, WWII), Regional (China-Taiwan), Local (Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia) |
| Asymmetry | Adversaries Not fighting the Same war, ie objectives (limited vs unlimited), motives (different from enemy motives), means (limited vs. unlimited) |
