More than ever salvation from the proles, only men left.

Unfortunately the current crop of leaders have never been in a fistfight or changed a tire, never mind war. They achieve dominance by being Alpha at meetings ala Rumsfeld [won every meeting, destroyed everything he touched] or now of course by being the biggest snivelling coward b_tch….my trauma is worse than yours over Jan 6, etc. One upsmanship on being histrionic drag queens in suits.

Trying to explain this is like me trying to explain calculus to my cat, I don’t know calculus myself for starters…

The cat of course doesn’t need to read Quigley to understand his point.

When an entity engages in warfare with another, it is asking the question: which of us has priority? And the asking of the question also occasions it’s answer. The entity that exists has higher priority than the entity that no longer exists.

War is this process of ontic priority. Those modes of being that exist and continue to exist and have more frequently or less contingently existed, then, have demonstrated higher priority than such modes of being that do not exist, have passed out of existence, have less frequently or more contingently existed, or could not exist.

For an entity to be described as virtuous at warfighting, for it to become more virtuous at warfighting, then, is for it to be something that participates in such higher priority modes of being; to anticipate them, even; to be something that can anticipate them.

This may or may not entail utter destruction of the enemy, depending on the nature of the enemy. If may be enough simply to destroy their morale. Which is another way of saying: establish absolute dominance over them on a psychological level.

A war that has a sequel was a bad war. It failed to achieve finality. Nobody really won World War I. The Allies just lost less badly.

Tell it to the Tutsis. Or the Bosnians. Or the Armenians.

The losers in a war become slaves to the victors, or are expelled/exterminated from the land fought over.

Correct 100% so. Most wars ended with some sort of negotiated settlement. War as ending in WW2 a rarity.