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Dead Carl Lives! - Why Clausewitz Endures
Reading and understanding Clausewitz is worth your time
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Kiran Pfitzner
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Gods and Mortals: Building a Universal Theory of War
Explaining Prussia's defeat and Russia's triumph over Napoleon
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Kiran Pfitzner
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In Defense of Taiwan: Attrition or Annihilation?
Stockpiles, Industry, and Battle and the Danger of Overcorrecting
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Kiran Pfitzner
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When Pogroms Returned to Eastern Europe
"They dragged the women and children out by their hair"
Published on Casus Belli: War in Donbas • 
A Modest Proposal For Restoring the Warrior Ethos
Signalgate and How the Secretary of Defense Can Preserve His Honor
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Kiran Pfitzner
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No One Should Have Been Surprised By Russia's Defeat in Ukraine
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The Myth of Military Logic
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The Invasion of Kursk, the Schlieffen Plan, and the Significance of Prisoners
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A Modest Proposal For Restoring the Warrior Ethos
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What will it take to end the war in Ukraine?
When and how will the war end? Here's what Clausewitz tells us:
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The Death of Conquest and the Costs of Incompetence
Supporting Ukraine as Signaling and Why Aggression Doesn't Pay
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Kiran Pfitzner
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The Stars and Stripes Forever - A Call to Sincere Citizenship
As we speak, great crimes are being perpetrated against our nation.
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Did German Industry Want a War in 1914?
The case of Hugo Stinnes shows they did not and exposes the weakness of a materialist explanation for the conflict
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Kiran Pfitzner
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The Anatomy of a Coup: July 20th and January 6th
What Made Jan 6th a Coup, and Why it Failed
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Kiran Pfitzner
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The United States Is Not More Deadly For Civilians Than Russia
A Response to "Comparing Russian and US Airstrikes: Which are More Dangerous for Civilians?" and a Critique of the Airwars Project
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Kiran Pfitzner
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The Kaiser and His Men: Civil-Military Relations in Wilhelmine Germany
The Limits of the Military Profession - Germany 1871-1914
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Kiran Pfitzner
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Secretary of Defense Rock
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The Struggle for Civilian Control in Bismarck's Germany
The Limits of the Military Profession Part 1: Prussia-Germany 1808-1871
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Kiran Pfitzner
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Secretary of Defense Rock
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The Danger and Usefulness of the Russian Opposition
Russian dissidents may feed Western optimism about reconciliation, but they also present a path to victory for Ukraine
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Kiran Pfitzner
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History Does You
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Secretary of Defense Rock
Infinite Scroll
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Jeremiah Johnson
Tenzer Strategics
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Nicolas Tenzer
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Thinking about...
Timothy Snyder
Nuclear Weapons (and other WMD)
Nuclear Weapons (and other WMD)
Al Mauroni
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