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Originally Posted by Yahoshua
Wars are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general the more he demands in maneuver, the less he demands of slaughter.
That is my definition of a great general. Which general has conquered most or least makes no difference when body counts come into play.
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This is certainly true, but I was refering to the fact that by absorbing the territory of various smaller warlords, Takeda Shingen had ultimately, although unwittingly, made Japan easier to consolodate into a single nation, thus bringing an end to the 150-year, multi-sided civil war that had run in Japan. In short, Tokugawa Ieyasu had one enemy to conquer where there had been 30 before.