:21:01
Not at all.
:21:02
Just, um... complicated.
:21:06
[Chuckles]
:21:08
Of course, that's the way
the Navy wants you.
:21:12
Me, they wanted simple.
:21:15
- Well, you certainly fooled them, sir.
- [Laughs]
:21:19
Be careful there, Mr. Hunter.
:21:20
It's all I got to rely on:
Bein' a simpleminded son of a bitch.
:21:24
Rickhover gave me
my command...
:21:27
a checklist, a target
and a button to push.
:21:31
All I had to know
is how to push it.
:21:32
They'd tell me when.
They seem to want you to know why.
:21:36
I would hope they'd want
us all to know why, sir.
:21:43
At the Naval War College...
:21:45
it was metallurgy and nuclear reactors,
not 19th-century philosophy.
:21:48
[Stifled Laugh]
:21:50
"War is a continuation
of politics by other means."
:21:53
Von Clausewitz.
:21:56
I think, sir, that what he was actually
trying to say was a little more...
:22:00
- Complicated?
- [Men Laughing]
:22:07
Yes, the purpose of war is
to serve a political end...
:22:10
but the true nature of war
is to serve itself.
:22:12
[Laughing]
I'm very impressed.
:22:15
In other words, the sailor
most likely to win the war...
:22:18
is the one most willing to part
company with the politicians...
:22:21
and ignore everything except
the destruction of the enemy.
:22:24
You'd agree with that.
:22:26
I'd agree that, uh, that's what
Clausewitz was trying to say.
:22:30
But you wouldn't agree with it?
:22:33
No, sir, I do not. No, I just think
that in the nuclear world...
:22:39
the true enemy
can't be destroyed.
:22:44
[Chuckling, Tapping Glass]
Attention on deck.
:22:48
Von Clausewitz will now tell us
exactly who the real enemy is.
:22:51
- [Laughing]
- Von?
:22:54
[Men Laughing]