War is politics by other means. The quote actually was part of a series of paragraphs, where he explains that politics is intrinsic to human interaction, because it's a form of imposing your will onto the world around you. With that understanding, war is a tool of doing so.
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Actually a fascinating section of his books. Once you grok the deeper concept he is getting at, you see how war, or the clash of opposing wills, threads throughout reality.
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