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Originally Posted by dave angel
Machiavelli shows you how to win a war without having to fight it, Sun Tzo shows you how to prepare a for war and then win it, while Von Clausewitz...
well, he's a German, WTF would he know about winning wars?
sorry to intrude in a thread of learning, but its a very old BA joke that just has to dragged up at any opportunity...
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I appreciate that you were 'just joking',however, von Clausewitz was actually a Prussian, and I would say they knew a great deal about winning wars. In fact, arguably they only lost one war, which was WWI. Unfortunately for Prussia that was all it took. The Kaiser's '2nd Reich' was very much Prussia with control of the 'German states' outside Austria. The '3rd Reich' was no longer Prussia with control of other German states, but very much a 'new' unitary state. Although Prussians still dominated the army at the start, Hitler even broke that bastion of Prussian dominance by the end of the war.