Modern warfare is not constrained by willpower; it’s constrained by supply chains.

The romantic version of military strategy centers on resolve—the side that wants victory more, endures more, sacrifices more, prevails. It’s a useful story for recruitment and memorialization. It has almost nothing to do with how prolonged industrial-era and post-industrial conflicts actually terminate. What ends wars is not the exhaustion of will but the exhaustion of the material systems that translate will into battlefield effect.