Word: clausewitz
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...Smith U.S. Ambassador to Russia. In that cold war outpost, Smith was a frustrated forward observer. Emerging from the Kremlin one day, he snapped to reporters: "Molotov, three hours. No Stalin. No comment." But his analysis of the Russians was shrewd. The Communists, said Beedle Smith, "have read Von Clausewitz and they believe that war is merely politics transferred to another sphere...
...which led General Talensky to a reversal of Clausewitz's dictum ("War is a mere continuation of policy by other means"). Wrote Talensky: "The process of development of the technique of destroying peoples makes it impossible now to use weapons for the solution of political tasks . . . War as an instrument of policy is becoming outdated...
Moshe Dayan, devout student of Von Clausewitz and of U.S. airborne operations, was perhaps even more justified than the British and French in his self-congratulation. "I am confident," said Israel's Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, "that military histories will make a thorough study of this remarkable operation...
...bright young proconsuls of the advance guard, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, added to this pattern of approach a breathtaking fervency and single-mindedness. Following Clausewitz' formula for successful military attack, they concentrated all the forces they could muster on the smallest possible problem: to express what they happened to be feeling in the process of painting. The results were huge canvases excitedly smeared, spattered, daubed, dribbled and gobbed with color in the shape of freewheeling overall designs, as if the artists had been playing with paints and got carried away. They were not as formless and unconsidered...
...discipline!" says Charles-Hubert (papa) when he sees a Wehrmacht brass band. "After all, they're human beings too," says Julie (mama). Julie, who met Charles-Hubert at a bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels of Gruyere...