No, you must attack all the resources of the enemy's Government: its finances, its railways, its stores, and even its prestige.

Thus energetically, and yet with a moderation previously unknown, was the late war against France conducted.

The issue of the campaign was decided in two months, and the fighting did not become embittered till a revolutionary Government, unfortunately for the country, prolonged the war for four more months.
"I am glad to see that the manual, in clear and precise articles, pays more attention to the necessities of war than has been paid by previous attempts.

But for Governments to recognise these rules will not be enough to insure that they shall be observed.

It has long been a universally recognised custom of warfare that a flag of truce must not be fired on, and yet we have seen that rule violated on several occasions during the late war.
"Never will an article learnt by rote persuade soldiers to see a regular enemy (sections 2-4) in the unorganised population which takes up arms 'spontaneously' (so of its own motion) and puts them in danger of their life at every moment of day and night.