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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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LAUGHTER OUT OF DEAD BELLIES

Even before America had entered World War One, death had become a romantic subject for the new generation of American writers. The notion spread that it was the inevitable fate of men in the trenches, and writers then in college … Continue reading

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