How To Use Clausewitz In A Sentence
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Handel's comparisons of the works of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu are nothing short of brilliant.
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Given that the label 'nontrinitarian' is the result of a misreading of Clausewitz, in a sense it is devoid of proper analytical meaning.
Chicago Boyz
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Until the 20th century, it simply did not occur to rulers that they could second every aspect of national life to the pursuit of their policies of which, as Clausewitz epigrammatically observed, war is merely a continuation.
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Whether civil wars, insurgency, organised crime or terrorism, van Creveld maintains that these forms of conflict are nontrinitarian and cannot therefore be examined through the lens of Clausewitzian theory.
Chicago Boyz
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Carl von Clausewitz in "On War" stresses the offense is the best defense.
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Under the cumbrous heading ‘Possible Engagements Are to be Regarded as Real Ones Because of their Consequences’, Clausewitz explained further what he meant by this ‘priority of engagements’.
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It was the century of Clerk Maxwell, yes-I'm thinking mainly of his work on what we call cybernetics-and Babbage and Peirce and Ricardo and Clausewitz and a slew of other thinkers whom we're stifi living off of.
There Will Be Time
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Clausewitz waxes almost poetic on the subject of friction, showering the reader with metaphors for the reality of war, something the reader may well never have experienced.
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Clausewitz observed that ‘if you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy to seek a solution elsewhere’.
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All art, all thought (for as Clausewitz himself expressed it, all thought is art), was a creative activity, not an imitative or derivative one.
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The state, accordingto Clausewitz, embodies the soul of the people; true freedom lies, not in the pursuit of individual happiness, but in theeffort “to put king and country above all else”; war is the great creative activity of patriotism.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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In addition, the author points out that contemporary conflict is being conducted on four interrelated levels, in a hierarchic top-down structure from the political, strategic, operational to the tactical level, what seems at first sight no different from the classical definition of war by Von Clausewitz according to which war is the continuation of politics by other means.
Preparing the Ground for Military Aggression Against Venezuela and Latin America
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Having said that, I think Greg should read up a titch on his military theorists, starting with Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and Moltke.
Obama On Withdrawal From Iraq: "I Reserve Right As Commander In Chief To Assess Situation"
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It was only when his mind was clear on this fundamental point that Clausewitz began the redraft of the entire work that he never lived to complete.
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The more Clausewitz poeticizes, the more convinced the reader is that friction is in fact paramount in war, theory nothing.
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According to Clausewitz, the main objective of an army at war is to defeat the opposing army.
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To which we can add such other Clausewitzian gems as friction, his two remarkable trinities, and his emphasis on the moral qualities.
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It was the century of Clerk Maxwell, yes -- I’m thinking mainly of his work on what we call cybernetics -- and Babbage and Peirce and Ricardo and Clausewitz and a slew of other thinkers whom we’re still living off of.
Two in Time
