The Clausewitz Collection (merged thread)

[M.L.]

1-You deter people by threatening the targets they consider valuable/vital to their continued existence. If the threat is directed toward a target they do not consider valuable then there will be know deterrence.

2-The quote is from Sun Tzu not Clausewitz, but it is still targeting because the target is the "mind" of your opponent.

I thought you said strategy=targeting, and targeting=killing people/breaking things...?

Strategy in the end is targeting....who you gonna kill and what are you gonna blow up in order to achieve the political objective.

Well, anyway...there are plenty of people who would agree with you...and many of them worked at CENTCOM in 2002/03.

I take it, then, you would say that the other instruments of power, diplomacy, information, and economics, are not a part of strategy?