In this part of the book, we will examine the recommendations that libertarian theory of war provides for wars of various scales and orientations. In particular, we cannot avoid discussing war against the state. However, an important clarification should be made here.
The state is a structure in which people perform certain functions, including those related to the violent redistribution of others’ resources and punishment for resisting this redistribution. Libertarians who wish to abolish the state must ultimately ensure that such functions no longer exist, and on the path to this, the violent destruction of the people performing these functions is not necessarily required. Nevertheless, when we speak of war, we are referring specifically to a conflict in which there is a readiness to kill people. Activities aimed at the abolition of the state that do not imply the possibility of killing remain off-stage, because within the framework of this specific book, they are not considered war.