The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
Martin Van CreveldAs history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
Martin Van CreveldThe problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.
Martin Van CreveldSun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.
Martin Van Creveld