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| Tango01 | 26 Oct 2020 1:20 p.m. PST |
"In Book One of On War, Clausewitz introduces the concept of war as "merely the continuation of policy by other means."[2] This most famous of Clausewitz's dictums introduces a critical perspective of war as both a tool of grand strategy that is dominated by politics, but also as something that is inherently temporal.[3] War cannot readily be decoupled or isolated from the higher policy context that triggers it, runs through it, and continues after the guns fall silent. This perspective is developed in Book Eight under the assertion that "war is an instrument of policy," and this provides the opening quote and focus of this article.[4] Book Eight explores the concept of war plans; here Clausewitz draws together the threads of war and policy to weave his observations on the relationship between policy (the logic) and the conduct (or grammar) of war…" Main page
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Armand
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ChrisBBB2  | 27 Oct 2020 4:54 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 27 Oct 2020 12:37 p.m. PST |
Thanks!.
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