Before he presents the military situation he writes about wars in general and theory. He had military education and was an officer in the K.u.K. Army, fought in WWI, recieved decorations, early interwar times he got more training, and climbed the ladder on. He could build his views both on conceptual knowledge and first hand experience.

He categorized the armed conflicts into ideological, defensive, and imperialist wars.
An Ideological War is always total war, the goal is the annihilation of the enemy. Ideologies are exclusive, they can't suffer other ideologies, peaceful coexistence is illusory and always temporary. The war is unavoidable, it is a necessity, no question of responsibility. The participants don't ask and don't give mercy, they consider every means acceptable. There's no negotiation of peace and they don't end in peace treaties, since they crush the enemy full [the defeated has no cards to play, no bargaining chips, and they don't exist anymore - Bernd].
The victor sets a new moral, mental, and material order [these three aspects are important in Szálasi's work, and he emphasize them in many topics - Bernd], according to his own will.

Defensive and Imperialist Wars are never total, but partial, they are set in an established ideological order. They do not aim the annihilation of the system, but they either try to correct the faults of the system (defensive), or exploit the defects of it (imperialist). There always someone responsible for the war, and the responsibility will always be shifted onto the defeated.