Military professionals preferred to fight a total war , incapacitate the enemy 's ability to fight .
This inevitably conflicted with the interest of another faction of strong supporters of the nationalist government : the landowners and businessmen , who joined bandits to oppose such tactic .
Military professionals preferred to fight a total war , incapacitate the enemy 's ability to fight , but this inevitably conflicted with the interest of another faction of strong supporters of the nationalist government : the landowners and businessmen , who joined bandits to oppose such tactic .