The Bush administration says that its war goals have been clear - and do not involve oil.

That is the only war goal worth putting before American soldiers as a reason for risking their lives.

You can add more war goals as the war progresses, although this does affect your population's temperament.

Failure to achieve a war goal will increase population's militancy, which can lead to revolts.

The general insisted he had no aversion to reporters or articulating the war goals to them.

But indirectly at least it points out once more the overriding importance of defining war goals.

All that seems obvious - yes, of course we must have understandable war goals.

Lincoln's war goals were reactions to the war, as opposed to causes.

The proclamation made abolishing slavery in the rebel states an official war goal.

By 1870, most Republicans felt the war goals had been achieved, and they turned their attention to other issues such as financial and monetary policies.