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Soldiers in labor unions? The very idea would be enough to set Clausewitz cackling in his grave. Yet last week unionization of the West German army was proceeding apace-with the approval of both Bonn and the Bundeswehr. At a meeting with West German labor leaders in Baden this month, Army Inspector General Josef Moll put his blessing on the union. "My presence," he declared, "proves to you that we generals recognize the constitutional right of soldiers to organize in labor unions...
...nuclear holocaust. Strategies of victory may be based on either the concrete elements of the crisis or on manipulation of levels of violence. The nuclear "balance of terror," however, discourages the actual use of force and makes threats a major means of international coercion. For the nuclear age, Clausewitz is amended to read: "The manipulation of the risks of war is the continuation of state policy by other means...
...itself has been lecturing," wrote Clausewitz of the Napoleonic period. Kahn would like to take this as his own motto. Kahn's studies, however, have yielded valuable insights only about the special forms, effects, and implications of the hypothetical horror of nuclear war. Such work is extremely valuable within its limits. But to understand the war which America is fighting, we should listen to the macabre lectures now being delivered in the highlands of Vietnam
...thus needs continuous redefinition. Prussia's Karl Clausewitz (who died in 1831 of cholera) gave the modern starting point by defining war as the extension of state policy by other means. To him, victory was "the destruction of the enemy forces," but he held an equally warm regard for the limited objective. Defense was at least as strong a position as offense, and putting the enemy off stride as valuable as knocking him flat. To that extent, generals who could forestall defeat were as honorable as those who won famous victories...
Warfare since Clausewitz has grown more refined, and American officials now look at it more in terms of intensiveness than offensiveness. General Harold K. Johnson U S Army Chief of Staff, discerns three categories; ∙HIGH-INTENSITY WAR uses the most modern military technology. Its firepower is delivered largely by missiles, aircraft and missile-armed submarines. All of the knockout punch is thermonuclear and aimed by the most advanced intelligence and command techniques, undoubtedly including spy satellites and pushbuttons. It sounds like Armageddon Physicist Herman Kahn in his current Clausewitzian study, On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios, argues that high-intensity...