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Tag Archives: Carl von Clausewitz
clausewitz: “its absolute form”
In Clausewitz’s view, it is absurd to try to “win” wars by military means alone, because, as he says, no major plan of war can bemade without political understanding and insight. The political setting not only determines the aims and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Alvin Toffler, Benny Gantz IDF, Carl von Clausewitz, Clausewitz On War, David Crist The Twilight War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Frederick the Great, J.J. Graham Clausewitz, kirsten cale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, martin van creveld, Oliver Cromwell, president eisenhower, rachel corrie, steven metz, The Marshall Plan
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How not to win a war
How not to win a war? A good beginning would be to ignore Karl Maria von Clauswitz- as we have apparently have been doing for the past seven decades…. Since 1945, under the stimulus of the Cold War, an immense … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of the Wavre, Carl von Clausewitz, Chris Hondros, Convention of Tauroggen 1812, Edward Sorel, Hamas MP Ahmad Bahr, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph E. Stiglitz, kirsten cale, Linda J. Bilmes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, restrepo film, Scharnhorst Prussian Army, Sebastian Junger, tim hetherington
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fold up the tent: patriots with bonds in their pockets
…As the U.S. miltary officially leaves Iraq, much of us are still puzzled by the phenomenon of this conflict which pits the social, the psychological and the economic in contradictory positions vis. a vis. conventional thinking. Can the conflict be … Continue reading
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Tagged alex pareene, Andre Breton, Carl von Clausewitz, Chris Hitchens, christopher caudwell, David Frum, david turnley photography, Erich Maria Rilke, Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, martin van creveld, Reza Deghati, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, steven metz, Susan Sontag, Thorstein Veblen, XTC Colin Moulding
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loose lips sink ships: uncertainty principal
As Clausewitz postulated, war is simply a means for a pre-determined purpose. A continuation of policy which implies a rather solid and usually sordid link between politics and war. There have been newer theories, which may actually be clever repackaging … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Alexander Cockburn, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, bill lewis art, Carl von Clausewitz, Howard Zinn, Julian Assange, kirsten cale, martin van creveld, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, pearl harbor, pearl harbor anniversary, pearl harbor attack, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, thomas lacquer
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they don’t like mondays
Are wars simply a matter of sex and psychology: irrational alpha males grabbing the bananas and lovemaking at the top of the tree with his submissive sweet fruit? Or in conflict conducted in a purposeful manner by thinking and reflective … Continue reading
getting no satisfaction: a hollow world going wrong
Desire and Disillusion. That technical progress with its transformational capacity could finish by alienating the individual giving rise to consumerism fueled by invidious comparison and a spirit of competition which would appropriate Darwininian contexts to establish political, social and hegemonic … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, charles hinton, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, darwinism, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, john dewey, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Martin Buber, Michel Foucault, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, picasso blue period, richard kazis, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Wassily Kandinsky
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writing from the port side
These things happen. John Galsworthy became involved with a girl whom his family which to distance their son from at all costs. Since his father, who was to be the senior member of the Forsyte family in Galsworthy’s The Forsyte … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, Ford Madox Ford, henry scott tuke, James McNeill Whistler, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, John William Waterhouse, Joseph Conrad, joseph crawhall, kirsten cale, nick hubble, Sam Huntington, Sigmund Freud, steven metz, Walter Benjamin
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