WAR War is the means by which one set of property rights and allocations within

WAR

War is the means by which one set of property rights and allocations within a geography is replaced by the application of violence with another set of property rights and allocations.

I don’t write much about war because it’s emotionally loaded, and I don’t see it as any different from any other form of human activity – it’s just a really expensive activity, a really risky activity, and unfortunately, a necessary and pervasive activity.

I don’t view war as good or bad. It is either necessary to obtain, restore, or implement, property rights of one set or another. My only concern is whether those rights are higher trust, more individualist or lower trust tyrannical rights.

(Thanks to Brian Anderson for the reminder.)