Every change in this position which is produced by a continuation of the War should therefore be a change for the worse.

The worst condition in which a belligerent can be placed is that of being completely disarmed.

If, therefore, the enemy is to be reduced to submission by an act of War, he must either be positively disarmed or placed in such a position that he is threatened with it.

From this it follows that the disarming or overthrow of the enemy, whichever we call it, must always be the aim of Warfare.

Now War is always the shock of two hostile bodies in collision, not the action of a living power upon an inanimate mass, because an absolute state of endurance would not be making War; therefore, what we have just said as to the aim of action in War applies to both parties.