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war as ideal philosophical nature
Even more disastrous is to reverse Clausewitz’s principle and allow military considerations to dominate national policy. The “absurdity” in Clausewitz’s view, has been perpetuated more often by Clausewitz’s own countrymen than by anyone else. In 1914, the Schlieffen Plan called … Continue reading
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bummer on the battlefield: centers of gravity
How to lose wars and win battles: a good beginning would be to ignore Karl von Clausewitz- as we apparently have been doing since the end of WWII. And Clausewitz died in 1831… For Clausewitz the central points about war … Continue reading
guide to the perplexed: how to lose a war
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. What next? How much the academic think-merchants should share in the responsibility for these messy predicaments is not really quantifiable. But judging from what he read and see, the American government would have found a better guide … Continue reading
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