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mesmerized by the decisive victory: lunatic doctrines
Instructions for losing a war .Lesson one, page one: ignore Karl Maria von Clausewitz… …even his statement that war is a continuation of policy has been twisted into meaning that war is the most effective of political instruments, or that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Amos Gitai, Ardant du Picque, bruce porter, Clausewitz On War, Donald Sutherland, ferdinand foch, Foch french military, J.J. Graham Clausewitz, Jean Renoir, John Keegan, kirsten cale, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, martin van creveld, steven metz
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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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Tagged Accrington Pals, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Clausewitz, Clausewitz On War, Eric Peterson, Erich Maria Remarque, John Gray actor, kirsten cale, Lew Ayres, Ludendorff WWI, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Howard, Schlieffen Plan
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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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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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Tagged Al Nusra Front, ambassador James Jeffrey, Andrew Tabler, Cardinal Spellman, Clausewitz, Damien Cave, David Crist The Twilight War, Edward Sorel, J.J. Graham Clausewitz, kirsten cale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Eisenstadt, Moises Saman, Otto Dix, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, Syria War, The Washington institute
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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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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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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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