Did you just quote Miyamoto Musashi?????? great warrior probably the greatest of all time. 
Won't try to give complete and detailed discertation. I'd just point out a couple of things that might (or might not) be important to consider on this topic. While not arguing that Musashi was a "great warrior", he was not, if memory serves, a soldier. Nor was a accomplished leader of men on the battle field. He was not a strategist nor tactician in the soldier and warfare sense. Further, I would be careful to adopt wholesale any Japanses philosophy of battle or combat. Their culture revels in the individual's "honor" above all else, to the point of committing Seppuku as the only way to redeem that honor 'when they believe they have failed'. This is contrary to the generally Western thought that insipe of defeat, and even having surrendered, the creedo is to stay alive, stay as anything can happen in the future.
Those who disparage of the concept of avoiding conflit or a fight to achieve a military goal fly in in the face of the truly great military leaders, who realized like Patton did, that the point is to make the other 'dumb bastich' die for his country. Mis-direction, subterfuge, camoflage are among the greatest weapons of a leader of soldiers. Truly, if I were to cite any Asian authority, it would of course, be Sun Tzu, who said essentially (among other things) do not attack where the enemy is stong, seek out where he is weakest. And by extrapolation, create his weakness by subterfuge and mis-direction when necessary.
Alexander spent spectacular efforts to successfully fool a stronger Indian opponent planted across a river from him that he wanted to cross. In Desert Storm, Schwartzkoff did everything possible, and correctly, to mis-direct the Iraqus and hold them tin heir positions, while he avoided their strength and swung around their exposed right flank.
Admittedly, this is a game about combat as individuals, but the structure of the envirment, the rules and general gameplay is about taking and keeping ground. Some people wanting to experience the 'war' as opposed to just forusing on dogfighting is natural and a perfectly reasonable way to enjoy the game.
On a different note, I hope this came out as I inteded, the text editor is really behave stupidly. I can't see what I've typed unless I am actually typing. Dam thing keeps scroll up whenever I stop keying and it seems to have the 'buffer slows'. This only occurs in this text editor and started a couple of major updates ago. Anyone have a solution?
