Every time that I’m thinking about Clausewitz’s famous observation that the war is “merely continuation of politics by other means” I realize how shallow and unsophisticated was his military theories after the napoleonic wars. Personally I always preferred Tolstoy, which have finer understanding of the chaotic nature of large scales wars, and the limits of [...]
The new release of, once classified, documents is a reminder that Presidents can be sane, skillful and avoid being dragged into conflicts all over the world. But instead of a President that will follow the footsteps of Eisenhower that ended the war in Korea and avoided getting involve in Vietnam (or anywhere else), we are [...]