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I doubt there is any formal mechanism that compels policy-makers at the national level to formally notify the Pentagon of every shift in foreign policy -- for that matter, nothing requires the White...

Almost as though by serendipity the other day SWJ Blog had an entry about Major General Fox Connor, the chief of operations of the AEF during the First World War. The quotation above is from an AUSA...

Watch out, Ken might be about to cry "Havoc" and let slip the beagles of Fayetteville.

Perhaps the following will lend an appropriate level of dignity to this thread:

We could debate the intentions of what Clausewitz, Halleck, and various military leaders really meant to say in their writings from now until doomsday. As far as I know the U.S. Army did not define...

Click here for a previous discussion of the Operational level of war. You'll have to scroll down almost to the end to find it.

The word operations has long been part of the U.S. military vocabulary -- however, the Operational level of warfare did not become part of U.S. Army doctrine until the AirLand Battle version of FM...

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies published by the U.S. War Department during the late 19th and early 20th centuries uses the word...

Is the proper adjective "Clausewittian" or "Clausewitzian," and is there a difference between the commonly-used British and American usages?

Because there is no letter "z" in Wilf's name I think...

Well, whatever you do don't wave it around in public. Some people still have vivid memories of their previous experiences with the German armed forces.

Before you military intellectuals get too carried away, it's only fair to point out that the average Deutsche Soldat thinks much more often about sex than he does about abstract military theory. ...

One of these days I'm going to need operations to ameliorate the Dupuytren's Contracture I have in my hands. I'll certainly listen to what Ken has to say but I want Tom Odom or Hacksaw to write the...

Who is this Karl Clausewitz guy and what is his claim to fame? Is he some sort of Dutchman? The Army doesn't need foreign intruders like him muddying the waters of serious discussions about...

Were Wilf one of those scholars of arcane texts he'd probably have his very own thread in the Trigger Puller forum on the efficacy of the Jawbone of an Ass as a weapon of war. His thread would...