Titlebook: On Clausewitz; A Study of Military Hugh Smith Book 2004 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004 Clausewitz.Cla

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Hugh Smitht und wird vielleicht auch niemals errichtet werden. Dennoch könnte es durchaus — neben einer abstrakten Rechtsordnung im Kelsenschen Sinne — auch heute bereits so etwas wie Weltrecht geben. Internationales Recht ist das Recht, das sich die souveränen Staaten durch Verträge und Abkommen gegeben habe

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Rolle. Wirtschaftsjournalisten können Fragen nach der gerechten Verteilung gesellschaftlicher Ressourcen thematisieren, über Geschehnisse auf Waren- und Finanzmärkten berichten oder Ergebnisse von Tarifverhandlungen kommentieren. Sie liefern jedoch immer nur einen bestimmten Ausschnitt aus der Real

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Scholarighly competent and intelligent staff officer, but he had not had the opportunity to exercise high command. He had gained social standing and married well and happily, but his nobility remained unconfirmed. He had seen his fatherland at last victorious but the disaster of 1806 had wounded his confid

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On Warfarentury warfare as armies manoeuvred for limited objectives and favoured skirmishes over major battles. Neither the traditional armies of Prussia and Austria nor the ‘citizen armies’ of France emerged victorious. His second campaign in 1806, by contrast, demonstrated all too clearly Napoleon’s strateg

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The Intellectual Provenance of ighteenth century and into the nineteenth ideas of the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment swept through Europe. While France and England were epicentres of the Enlightenment, the German states experienced both movements in abundance. Intellectual and artistic creativity flourished through write

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War as Fightingng injured. This is the unique and defining characteristic of war that makes it different from every other human activity. ‘What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means’. [87] Any definition of war must recognise its true character, avoiding the pedantic or legalistic defi

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War as Contesthting for the sake of ritual — entails forming intentions and pursuing objectives. It is designed — or should be designed according to Clausewitz — to achieve those ends. The purpose is fulfilled when the opponent accedes to our wishes. In its second dimension, therefore, war is ‘an act of force to

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War as an Instrument of Policyexplain why belligerents engage in a contest at all. War, he proposes, should be seen as a means to achieve the political goals which states set themselves. Their goal is thus not victory in the contest but what victory brings. Were victory alone the objective, war would be an activity in itself and