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...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...possibly—the willingness of the Soviet Union to tolerate nonnuclear frustration. Carl von Clausewitz advised: The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act...statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test [of war as an instrument of policy] the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither...

...aims because of military successes, such as occurred in Korea, is something Clausewitz warns about: "The most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman...they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor turning it into, something that is alien to its nature" (OW, 88). LIMITED AND UNLIMITED WAR Clausewitz...

...alone applied, the wisdom of a long-dead Prussian soldier-theorist. Carl von Clausewitz wrote that "[t]he first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act...statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test [of war as an instrument of policy] the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither...