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After reading your first blog post I have to agree. M.L gave a pretty good quick primer. Perhaps you should go to the www.clausewitz.com page and read some of the introductionary stuff before going...

His most important point in this regard might indeed be that as war is the continuation of Politik (polity, politics, policy) with the inter-mixtion of other means one should also take a good hard...

This is a burden of many a soldier in war. When comrades get killed and wounded, when friends and relatives suffer and oneself has also spent much it is important and hard to try to no let you and...

I remember the post concerning his book, but as I haven't read it, I can't comment on it. I just want add that first question is a valid one, but which begs a lot of questions. What is the...

Wilf and kotkinjs1 have already pointed to a far better translation than this work from 1874. Wilf's post shows a good path to understanding. With an open and critic mind and some help pretty much...

Yes, true enough and the fun side of translations. This is the reason why I added more choices in my very rough ones. It puts the reader in guard and shows that there are other nuances and (slightly)...

I forgot to explain the "Wechselhandel" or "bill transaction" of that time. Basically you give some sort of security, usually a cheque which doesn't gets chashed to get a credit.




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Hope this helps. In this translation the "nur" or "only" has been left out!






My rough translation of the last bit: "The superior (overwhelming) worth, which the annihilation of the enemy...

I do no think one should waste too many bits to comment this "notional construct". Reading things before constructing some sort of premeditated rambling usually helps. We have already insightful...

My answer is even the wisest of heads would have found it terribly difficult to steer Afghanistan toward a state fitting the (differing) political intention(s) of members of the coalition with so...

So for the (Afghan) government fighting the insurgency is the continuation of politik (polity, politics, policy) with the addition/intermixture of other means? A continuation of polity, poltitics and...

I'm not too happy about the definition of FID, as it has a political slant (to free and to protect) which leaves out too much. Perhaps it just a way to paint a policy in a positive colour and it...

First thanks for that link. The author gives a good rough overview of the CvC views, and includes also the so often overread concept of the people's war. He also points people with little time to the...

I think that there are quite a few fallacies in the last posts, but I wonder how much sense it makes to discuss them. It seems that some positions are quite entrenched, perhaps including mine, and...

Perhaps I will take once a bit more time to analyze (in very rough form) the current conflict on the basis of CvC. Nothing fancy, nothing revolutionary, nothing which hasn't been done before. But it...

Some corrections :)

a) France was arguably already the most prominent military power in Europe before the French Revolution

b) "The American Way of War" is in my humble optinion a misnomer....

Well if we look at both WWI and WWII we see that the death of civilians both can or might not play an important part in the surrender of the enemy. In WWI we had huge internal unrest in all four...

Well this is of course a difficult question.

Starting the war hoping to bring the rotten building of communism down with one mighty kick was of couse a major factor in the whole campaign. There...

Note the discussion in this topic.

IMHO one of the most important contribuitions of CvC is the exposure of the ambiguous nature of war. It can be seen and used as an instrument of the political...

You have my respect for stressing that point during the lecture. Such a number may sound pretty understandable and agreeable on paper but as you said it will in practice be very bloody. Killing in...

It is pretty hard to create only through Cavguy's post an sensible image of the critic of CvC offered by the lector.

His approval of Sherman and the description of his book seem to indicate that...

There is certainly no need or urge to give me a sir, I'm better off without that moniker :D

Perhaps we should bring the thread back on track, discussing the application of CvC to insurgency in...

I would advise you to read Taiko's excellent post - just like him I do not agree with the simplistic assumption of the "decline of the nation state" on which a good part of MvC theory is grounded....

The Soviet campaign came into my mind when reading the above and the following, "Bear went over the mountain" has just so many corrisponding examples and situations.



Then, once again I'm...

I recently studied Clausewitz more closely, especially the chapters which are not very well known. Here is the chapter on "Volksbewaffnung" or "Arming the Nation". This chapter has to been seen as...