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That basically accords with Soviet/Russian doctrine too. Strategy and Operations refered to territorial/geographic expressions within which even an Army or frnt level action was considered tactics...

That’s news to me (and him too more than likely, unless he’s one of those types who is unself-conscious about what he says and rather more concerned with the volume of his work....you’d think I...

OK. I see where you're comming from. I think the kind of instrumental ideology you are talking about is often refered to by Marxists as false conscousness or nystification. What I'm trying to get...

I don't quite agree with the above. Are you talking about "ideas" per se or "ideology"? Ideologies are very important. The "idea" that they are and that there are purely material causes to...

Sirs, as I see it (and admittedly my eyesight may be poorer than most) what we have is a twofold problem. Firstly, that of designation and secondly of advocacy.

First, many of us have different...

Sir, sorry for being a dunce but I really don't get what you're getting at with the above.

Firstly,

I agree wholeheartedly. This is a question of means/resources.

But,

I know they did...

Now I'm confused. I was always taught that...

Ends = Policy

Means = Resources avaliable to acheive ends

Ways = Strategy or how resources can be applied/and shape the ways to acheive the...

Sir, the following observations may be of some use to you and the other members of the SWC in the discussion especially with regards to the issue of interpretation, meaning and intention.

Firstly,...

As I see it we're stuck in a kind of langauge game with different people using different rules. As Wittgenstein said "the meaning of a wrod derives from its usage". Just becasue someone said...

PLANNING FOR AND APPLYING MILITARY FORCE: AN EXAMINATION OF TERMS

You could also try the following website for an English/German side by side comparision of Vom Krieg run by Clausewitz scholar Christopher Bassford which uses the J. J. Graham version (which my old...

This interests me personally, which is not to say that the thread sent me to sleep, but purely because I remember having a discussion about the ost front at Uni where we had to think Clausewiztically...