Tag Archives: Carl von Clausewitz

taking it on the chin

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Dave

Defeat- complete national defeat- is an experience that happily is foreign so far to the United States and Great Britain. In these histories there is nothing comparable to the Prussian disasters at Jena and Austerlitz in 1806, leading to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Arch of Titus, Bar Kochba revolt, Carl von Clausewitz, Francesco Hayez, Josephus Flavius, Napoleon at Jena, Prussian army Austerlitz | Leave a comment

mao: “revolution is not a dinner party”

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Dave

Ignore von Clausewitz at your peril.He died in 1831, but his book, On War, is unfortunately something ignored more often than not stacking the odds in favor not winning a war…. If Clausewitz’s influence has been so often catastrophic, there … Continue reading →

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clausewitz: “its absolute form”

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Dave

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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war: a continuation of policy by other means

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Dave

A deaf ear to Clausewitz and how not to win a war. He died in 1831, yet we still haven’t grasped the lessons in the post WWII age: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran? …… In distinguishing between the defensive and the … Continue reading →

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How not to win a war

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | 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 | Leave a comment

fold up the tent: patriots with bonds in their pockets

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Dave

…As the U.S. miltary officially leaves Iraq, much of us are still puzzled by the phenomenon of this conflict which pits the social, the psychological and the economic in contradictory positions vis. a vis. conventional thinking. Can the conflict be … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alex pareene, Andre Breton, Carl von Clausewitz, Chris Hitchens, christopher caudwell, David Frum, david turnley photography, Erich Maria Rilke, Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, martin van creveld, Reza Deghati, Sam Huntington, Slavoj Zizek, steven metz, Susan Sontag, Thorstein Veblen, XTC Colin Moulding | Leave a comment

loose lips sink ships: uncertainty principal

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | 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 | Leave a comment

they don’t like mondays

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Dave

Are wars simply a matter of sex and psychology: irrational alpha males grabbing the bananas and lovemaking at the top of the tree with his submissive sweet fruit? Or in conflict conducted in a purposeful manner by thinking and reflective … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allen Abel, Allen Abel National Post, Alvin Toffler, Carl von Clausewitz, dorian lynsky, Hannah Arendt, jan de bray, John Keegan, martin van creveld, Mitt Romney, steven metz, The Screaming Blue Messiahs, Vladimir Putin | Leave a comment

getting no satisfaction: a hollow world going wrong

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Dave

Desire and Disillusion. That technical progress with its transformational capacity could finish by alienating the individual giving rise to consumerism fueled by invidious comparison and a spirit of competition which would appropriate Darwininian contexts to establish political, social and hegemonic … Continue reading →

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writing from the port side

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Dave

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 →