Word: clausewitzes
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...Pancho, "he doesn't know what to expect. Jimmy will stay back and play base line, then rush the net. He can lob you or beat you down the alley with a winner. He's impossible to predict." Much of the credit for that unpredictability belongs to Segura, a Clausewitz of subtle shots and stratagems. As a small player who uses a two-handed forehand, Segura is in many ways the perfect teacher for Connors. Before all of Connors' big matches, he and Pancho, currently teaching pro at La Costa, a resort north of San Diego, review the opponent...
...United States will go to war again, in five or 20 or 50 years. Very likely our next war will be of the type that Clausewitz called "wars of policy" -conflicts unlikely to yield quick, unambiguous victories. The war will not be popular, therefore; the draft will be reintroduced; and the officer factories will go on double overtime. It is possible another Calley will be commissioned and that another massacre will occur. What we can labor to assure is that such an episode will be exposed the Army itself swiftly, honestly, by remorselessly...
...MILITARY. Every athletic contest represents some sort of war, from the King-Riggs sexual skirmish to the bloody knockdowns of professional hockey. But the very terminology of football - marches downfield, throwing the bomb, guards, strategies - recalls the Von Clausewitz spirit. For the first time in ten years the viewer, accustomed to another living-room war, can watch these armies with no sense of unrest...
...with an almost ritual quality. They are unlike fatal quarrels of husband and wife, random slaughter in delicatessen holdups and bar brawls, and the other killings that constitute the vast majority of murders in the U.S. Instead, the Mafia practices a drama of implacable tribal will: just as Clausewitz defined war as foreign policy by other means, La Cosa Nostra regards murder as an instrument of business-often conducted with a vengeance. The peculiar vogue that the Mafia is now enjoying in films and books may spring from a kind of stylish atavism that Americans recognize in a brute feudal...
...says one officer, "in nine out of ten operations, quick reaction and recharge up the hill would have been the best thing to do and the commander would have come out smelling like a rose." Ap Bia was the tenth case, one remarked on by Karl von Clausewitz. "It would be a great mistake to conclude that a blind dash must always gain the victory over cautious skill. An unskilled dash would lead not to the destruction of the enemy's forces but our own," he wrote. Now if ever in the war, when peace at last is possible...