Hmm...

[He had a feeling that would be the answer.]

So then there would be the question of how to reach the enemy...

[And then the most important question of all.]

And suppose we win this war, I assume that would mean we would have the entire enclosure to ourselves? And then what? We would just continue to live on?

[Just like they are right now? The sage just isn't seeing the point of this war right now...]