“A common objective of Lamanite warfare was to bring the Nephites into captivity. Nephites living under Lamanite control were normally required to pay tribute … , and when captured in battle, they were usually taken back to become slaves or to be sacrificed. … Nephite objectives … were usually much different, at least as long as the people were living righteously. … ‘[They] were inspired by a better cause, for they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church’ (Alma 43:45)” (Merrill, “Nephite Captains and Armies,” 275–76).