Word: clausewitzes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Cash-Register Clausewitz. As they scurry out of Paris before the Nazi Panzers and Stukas in the summer of 1940, Papa and Mama Poissonard and family seem no better off than anyone else Papa is built like a beer barrel and Mama like a bathtub, but they do have a nose for news, and word reaches them within a week that the Germans are most "correct." They race back to the Bon Beurre, to do a little business-as-usual...
...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...
...Clausewitz, the President continued, knew 150 years ago there are various kinds of war. Some were police actions, and others would get to be complicated. So far as he is concerned, said the President, Korea is a war-a particular kind...