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...special forces." He should have stuck to the subject of his review without making backhanded insults about members of the armed forces. Grossman also called director Zack Snyder a "dork" for having read a comic book about the Battle of Thermopylae. Professional warriors in our armed forces read Thucydides, Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and Herodotus. I challenge Grossman to call those members of our military dorks. Walt Stachowicz, INVERNESS, FLORIDA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/28/2007 | See Source »

Turner is a model of the modern American officer, a wry, boyish-looking West Point graduate equally versed in the works of Clausewitz and St. Augustine. As he waits for help to arrive, he directs his men not to shoot wildly at the shadows flitting through the battle chaos. "Dammit! It's civilians mixed with enemy," he shouts into his radio. "Make sure they're carrying guns before you engage." The Air Force has responded to his distress call by sending over a B-52 bomber, which could flatten the entire village, killing plenty of civilians. Turner gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Shadows | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...Carl von Clausewitz once famously wrote: “war is the continuation of politics by other means.” But what of organizations, like the Undergraduate Council, which lack the ability to wage war? Even the UC, it seems, is capable of massacres...

Author: By Jason L. Lurie, | Title: By Other Means: The Ouster of Ian Nichols | 5/20/2005 | See Source »

Even before Clausewitz said war is politics by other means, it was almost impossible to tell where one stopped and the other began. As casualties in Iraq continue to mount--782 Americans have died there in the past 15 months, 12 in the past week--and the twisted images from Abu Ghraib are posted and reposted on websites by the U.S.'s critics around the globe, a growing number of voters are having second thoughts about Bush's instinctive brand of leadership. For the first time since his election, more Americans disapprove than approve of his handling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Moment Of Reckoning: Collateral Damage | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

That’s right. Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, Clausewitz and all those other boutique theorizers aren’t relevant anymore, and war is no longer about inflicting, or plausibly threatening to inflict, more pain than the other side can bear. Christiane Amanpour and CNN change everything...

Author: By Boleslaw Z. Kabala, | Title: Editor's Notebook: The Sacred Duty of Copping Out | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

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