The ends of war do not necessarily justify the means. Its immediate, strategic objectives are the physical destruction and moral debilitation of the agitators, and to gain public opinion and support through the belligerents' actions. Physical includes the destruction of materiel and personnel. Moral includes the eradication of the enemy's "will to fight" - his desire to survive and the dictates of his ideology. The superficial goals, however, are territorial expansion or freedom from external control. A war of conquest is justified only is the nation's population has grown so large that it can no longer support�it with its resources, and continued reliance on those diminishing resources is bringing it close to anarchy. A�war�in defense of nation's sovereignty, honor and integrity, moreover, is the only sensible kind of war because men and nations cannot waive the basic�right�of self-preservation. Peace, the ultimate aim of waging war, becomes so distant a phenomenon. It is, nevertheless, achieved amidst poverty, pestilence and plague.