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Taiko: That is probably the most brilliantly succinct explanation of the misunderstanding of Clausewitz I have seen. Your words should be repeated at every chance. Thanks for this.

Dave

I could not agree more that it is wrong to think that we are in a post trinitarian security environment. It is as if we have found something new in thinking that war has shifted from state to state...

This is one of the problems with reading Clausewitz. His work gets reduced to sound bites. I think you have to put the people, military and the government in context (On War, page 89, Howard and...

But I believe that by studying Clausewitz we can better understand the nature of war and through thorough study (along with Sun Tzu and other great theorists) we can develop plans to deal with...