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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Carl von Clausewitz"”.
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The friction of war: A study of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment, 1940-1945
… and oral evidence, this study examines what Carl von Clausewitz called “the friction of war.” It details how men were trained for and reacted to the challenges of the battlefield. It examines these concerns by emphasizing the fluidity and fragility of a military organization which was also …
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The centrality of legitimacy and the limitations of the small footprint approach to military operations
… it is, not as we wish it to be. This dictum of Carl von Clausewitz is as relevant today as it was in his time. Now, in the wake of 15 years of persistent low intensity conflict, policymakers argue over the application of military force in the contemporary threat environment. The Powell Doctrine …
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Applying systems thinking towards countering hybrid warfare
Carl von Clausewitz, a famous Prussian general and military theorist asserted that war's nature of being violent, interactive, and fundamentally political, does not change - only its character does. According to Clausewitz, the character of war is a dynamic phenomenon that manifests differently …
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Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence
… violence and knowledge. The views of Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, The United States Military Academy, Wendy Hamblet, Crispin Sartwell, Judith Bradford, and Aaron Fortune receive primary attention in chapter one. Chapter two focuses primarily on the development of a radically empirical social …
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From Retreat to Victory: The Rise of the Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War, 1935–1949
… the consequences of each phase. Adopting a Clausewitzian framework to study those pivotal stages of the armed revolution, the story traces the Party’s strategic retreat during the Long March; its activities during the interregnum of China’s war with Japan; its strategic counteroffensive into …
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"We are in the Congo now" : Sweden and the trinity of peacekeeping during the Congo crisis 1960-1964
… the Congo, ONUC, from 1960 to 1964. Inspired by Carl von Clausewitz’s understanding of war as a trinity consisting of three ‘nodes’: the political authority, the people and the military, this study focuses on the ONUC experience as described by the government in Sweden, leading Swedish news media …
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The Principle of Destruction in Irregular Warfare: Theory and Practice
According to the principle of destruction the best way to achieve victory in war is to disarm the enemy by destroying his forces in battle. However, irregular warfare is commonly assumed to operate through processes that make the principle of destruction irrelevant. An analysis of the writings and …