More in context: "no civil war"…
Assuming this is a well thought out and executed "military-like plan", the objective would be to overwhelm the opposition psychologically and physically in such a manner that wethepeople should not have to fight a wide scale (time/geography) civil conflict – with alternate decision points and back-up branch plans to keep the time-scale and theater-scale outbreaks of violence minimized (if they do occur).
On the other hand:
"You'd" (generic you) be a fool to refuse to be prepared for some violence, aggression coming at you from leftist (gov't and non-gov't) sources.