ABSTRACT
When civil war breaks out in a country, no real fighting is possible until the contending factions are organized on separate territory. The more compact the two territories are, the more cleanly they divide a country, the better for the fighting, the nearer the whole business is to a real war. The opponent is an alien, and the territorial division is as strategically perfect as diplomacy can make it. Two nations don't have to "break" as a family does; they are already "broken" and proud of it. A democrat might say that to cure the evils of commercialism by precipitating war was like burning down the house to roast the pig. But he had better reserve his comment, and try to understand. The opposition of the military idealist is not alone to the evils of commercialism; it governs all his social theories.
