The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish. ..the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to... Essays on Strategy - Page 345edited by - 1996 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Edward Thibault - 1984 - 916 pages
...how wars must vary with the nature of their motives and of the situations which give rise to them. k/c owo3a N j hq P > [=T1 'x~ػYi Xf o...4e u i 9 .E{-`ͣ y L di üoc?י 2ɥθ G " 4+ F j {w by that test the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn... | |
| Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig, Felix Gilbert - 1986 - 964 pages
...combat. Ln.de heed was paid to the principle formulated by Carl von Clausewitz over a century earlier: "The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act...trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature."11 Having long planned within the framework of a continental strategy, the Japanese were slow... | |
| Howard Jones - 1988 - 230 pages
...dogma. Conclusion During the early 1800s the German military theorist Karl von Clausewitz warned that "The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act...turn it into, something that is alien to its nature. This is the first of all strategic questions and the most comprehensive."27 As America began its slide... | |
| Jayne Susan Werner, Luu Doan Huynh - 1993 - 330 pages
...Part Two The War from the American Side US Military Strategy and the Vietnam War George R. Vickers The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and the commander have to make is to establish . . . the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither... | |
| Williamson Murray - 1996 - 702 pages
...military specialist to the absolute priority of politics and ideology. Clausewitz had written that "the first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act...statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn... | |
| John J. Weltman - 1995 - 286 pages
...how wars must vary with the nature of their motives and of the situations which give rise to them. The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act...turn it into, something that is alien to its nature. — Clausewitz, On War Out of the great upheavals of the Napoleonic period came a widespread impulse... | |
| Gert C. de Nooy - 1997 - 196 pages
...concems, they translate Clausewitz as writing 'the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgement that the statesman and commander have to make is to...establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking ...". The original sees the statesman and general as one and the same person: cf. Clausewitz, On War,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security - 1997 - 608 pages
...Clausewitz, wrote "The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and the commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mi*tf1""g it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature. This is the first... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security - 1997 - 878 pages
...under such circumstances? SUMMARY . The great German military intellect, Karl von Clausewitz, wrote "The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and the commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither... | |
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