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  Declaration of the Articles of War  
  The Homo Sapien race has always been at war in some place and time throughout its history. War has shaped the destiny of civilizations; it has destroyed vast Empires and filled the treasuries of powerful victors.  
  War has been the birthplace of almost all of the greatest and most terrible technologies. It has been the ground on which the very young and best of a nation have been slaughtered or triumphed.  
  While the aspiration of world peace is noble, as is the pursuit of goals of prosperity and global trade, the fact is that war exists, has always existed and is likely to exist in the future in some form.  
  Therefore any philosophy that claims to provide answers for peace and prosperity, must also address this most terrible of subjects- war. For without a clear understanding of the nature of war, warfare and conflict there can be no understanding of real and lasting peace.  
  Understanding the nature of war  
  War without objective is suicide. Yet for many who prosecute war, their objectives are unclear and deficient as is their ignorance of the nature of war. Without understanding, without objective, no matter how successful in terror or violence, such action is ultimately doomed to fail.  
  In understanding the nature of war, the most common source is the collected history of the victors of warfare. These are the stories of great triumphs and conquests over evil as accounted by the authors of the great Empires of humanity- especially the Greeks, the Romans, the European powers, the Chinese and the Americans.  
  Amongst these stories there exist great works that seek to define the nature of warfare as it related to the time. Yet the wisdom in each of the works are separated. They are not combined in any singular manifesto. Many of the fundamental rules expressed by Sun-tzu such as “never lay siege to a city” and “all war is deception” remain cornerstones of universal military strategy. Yet in being separated many of these wisdoms risk being lost to new generations who may or may not read them.  
  The purpose of the articles of war  
  The UCADIAN Articles of War seek in no way to glorify or edify war, but merely to state clearly that in all things such as war, there exists certain fundamental rules that remain the same, no matter what the age, no matter what the technology or the participants. These are the unending truths that all conflicts will be determined, whether the generals of war choose to be ignorant of them or not.  
  It is therefore the hope in constructing the articles, that students of war and military training will reflect on them, learn them and refer to them in their destiny. For only in truly understanding the nature of war, can there ultimately be hope of lasting world peace.  
     
   
 
 
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