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Tag: On War
Carl von Clausewitz: Defence of Mountains
Carl von Clausewitz: Defence of Mountains
In mountains every movement is slower and more difficult, costs also more time, and more men as well, if within the sphere of danger.
Millennium Challenge: Iran Destroyed America In a War Game
Here’s What You Need to Remember: If Iran actually were to deploy Van Riper’s brutally effective tactics, it just might inflict even more damage than Van Riper’s own hamstrung forces did in their simulated, and rigged, war.
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Read More »LENIN’S “NOTEBOOK ON CLAUSEWITZ”
Clausewitz: Information in War
Clausewitz: Information in War
Great part of the information obtained in war is contradictory, a still greater part is false, and by far the greatest part is of a doubtful character.
Clausewitz: The Genius for War
I was just listening to Jeff Rich’s video, “Russophobia and the Anxiety of American Primacy” and it made me think of my previous post on “demonizing the enemy.” That led to me rereading my posts on propaganda and “The Blob.” For some reason, this chapter came up when searching for “Clausewitz and demonizing the enemy.” It’s an interesting read, and much better than reading Freud. 🤭 On another note, I have yet to finish reading “Lenin’s Notebook on Clausewitz” that I downloaded earlier from this website.
BOOK 1, CHAPTER 3: The Genius for War
Read More »Clausewitz or Engels?
Once technological advances can be used for military purposes and have been used for military purposes, they will immediately almost forcefully, and often against the commander’s will, cause changes or even revolutions in warfare.
Who said it? Carl von Clausewitz or Friedrich Engels? I saw it quoted in a paper by the China Aerospace Studies Institute (attributed to Engels). Considering that it’s the “think tank” of the Department of the Air Force, I’m not taking the contents of the paper at face value (same with the papers that I posted below). I’m more interested in who said it, anyway. FYI, I only have Volume 1 of “On War” and apparently it’s the “wrong” translation. I’m too busy reading Mao to read Clausewitz. I find it interesting what I find when researching stuff, though.
Engels’s Second Theory: Technology, Warfare and the Growth of the State
Thesis Title: “The First Red Clausewitz”: Friedrich Engels and Early Socialist Military Theory, 1848-1870 by Michael A. Boden (United States Army Command and General Staff College)
The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat
We are very happy to bring you this excerpt from Colonel Jacques Baud’s latest book, The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat (L’art de la guerre russe: Comment l’occident conduire l’ukraine a la echec). This is a detailed study of the two-year old conflict in which the West has brutally used the Ukrainians to pursue an old pipedream: the conquest of Russia.
The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat
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