War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.
Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.
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