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Originally Posted by dave lukins
Shek, i have a feeling you had more "fun" reading Mr Sun than Mr Clauswitz,who had no humour and was very political..but..a Maj Gen at 38 he must have had something going for him!!
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Maybe that's why I've never actually read the full text of "On War"
, but have rather limited myself so far to the chapters that talk more on strategy as opposed to some of his chapters that are a little more tactically focused. I'm reading
On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War by COL Harry Summers, and while I don't buy his thesis that it was a doomed to lose strategy to focus on COIN in Vietnam, his linkage or lack thereof of US Army strategy at the time to Clausewitz is fantastic and has been illuminating.