From Mars to Minerva: Clausewitz, Liddell Hart, and the Two Western Ways of War

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From Mars to Minerva: Clausewitz, Liddell Hart, and the Two Western Ways of War
by Tony Corn

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A decade after 9/11, the absurdity of the U.S. grand strategy in the Long War is never better illustrated than by the fact that Washington currently spends $ 100 billion dollars a year in Afghanistan chasing a grand total of 100 Al Qaeda fighters (one billion per terrorist). If there is only one reason to rediscover Liddell Hart today, it is because, as Sir Ernest Rutherford famously said in a different context: “We are running out of money, gentlemen. It’s time to start thinking.”

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Dr. Tony Corn taught European Studies at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute in Washington DC.



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