Word: clausewitzes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bookstacks, he had read Bakunin, who dreamed of absolute freedom; Marx, who dreamed of absolute politico-economic science; and Rousseau, who dreamed of justice. More important, he had read the Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz, who dreamed of power. The more Lenin schemed and struggled (in the bookstacks) for the revolution, and was thwarted, the more he thought of power. He made marginal notes on Clausewitz. "How true!" Lenin wrote. "Clever and witty." Admiringly, he summed up a Clausewitzian point: "War as a part of a whole, and that whole-politics...
...anniversary, Prime Minister Attlee and President Truman sent greetings to the Russian people, who well deserved them. With a courage that the world would never forget they had survived the power grab of Clausewitz' disciples from the military colleges and beer halls of Germany. With luck, some of them might even survive what was let loose 30 years ago when a potbellied disciple of Clausewitz came out from behind the bookstacks...
...landlocked Paraguay, Dictator-President Higinio Morínigo could hardly be blamed for overlooking Admiral Mahan's classic studies of the influence of sea power on history. There was less excuse for his forgetting the Clausewitz command to land fighters to concentrate the main force on the main enemy. Because he ignored both teachers, Morínigo last week was in a tough spot...
...Numbers Sanctify." Chaplin has remarked that Verdoux paraphrases Clausewitz' idea that the logical extension of diplomacy is war. Verdoux's version: "The logical extension of business is murder." War, he tells the court which condemns him, is merely a grandiose multiplication of the crime he is dying for. But wholesale murder is condoned by the state. "Numbers . . ." (of killed men), he tells the fat-mouthed journalist who interviews him in his death cell, "numbers sanctify." An earnest priest, his last offices rejected, murmurs solemnly, "May God have mercy on your soul." "Why not?" replies M. Verdoux. "After...
...Karl von Clausewitz had said, "Public opinion is won through great victories and the occupation of the enemy's capital." The fall of Yenan was no great victory, but it would have a marked effect on Chinese opinion, strengthen confidence in Chiang's ultimate victory...