"Scharnhorst: The Vision of an Enlightened Soldier" Topic
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| Tango01 | 04 Apr 2019 12:49 p.m. PST |
…"On Experience and Theory". "Without Gerhard von Scharnhorst, it is unlikely there would be a Carl von Clausewitz. An officer with extraordinary talents and intellect, and an even more remarkable fate, Scharnhorst forever changed the path of the Prussian Army, molded the idea of the Prusso-German General Staff, and forged some of the most influential concepts in the realm of military theory and practice. Yet, he is primarily known as a teacher and mentor to the West's most influential strategic thinker, Carl von Clausewitz…especially among those less versed in German language and history. While his position as a mentor to Clausewitz is of no small significance, Scharnhorst deserves recognition for his ideas, and they should be studied in their own right. Almost nothing of his extensive literary estate is translated into English, however. The only book-length study of Scharnhorst's legacy in English, Charles Edward White's The Enlightened Soldier: Scharnhorst and the Militärische Gesellschaft in Berlin, 1801-1805, offers sizable extracts out of his writings.[1] But this is far from a comprehensive representation of an intellect that played such a crucial role in the modern philosophy of war…."
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