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Barbarity and Civilization: Explaining Wanton Violence in the Conduct of War
How do futile bombing campaigns fit into the theory of war?
 • Kiran Pfitzner
Historical Imagination and Alternatives to the Schlieffen Plan
And Why It's Worth Remembering Yesterday's Tomorrow
 • Kiran Pfitzner
Liberalism as a Military Technology
To exclude individuals on the basis of sex, color, class, or creed now means to hobble the strength of the state.
Published on Liberal Currents • 
Clausewitz on the Very Bad Ideas to Reform the War Colleges
An Opportunity to Expose Errors and Discuss How One Can Gain Experience From Books
 • Kiran Pfitzner
Rights and Righteousness: From "The War People” to “A People at War"
What the Mercenaries of the Thirty Years' War and the Citizen-Soldier Have In Common
 • Kiran Pfitzner
The Further Misconceptions of John Boyd
On Friction, Schwerpunkts, and Mass
 • Kiran Pfitzner
How Many Iran Wars Are There?
The Center of Gravity in A Coalition and What Victory Means
 • Kiran Pfitzner
Applying Clausewitz to the Iran War
Limited War and Changing the Odds
 • Kiran Pfitzner
John Boyd Didn't Understand Clausewitz
Part 1: Aims, Terrain, and the Superiority of the Defensive
 • Kiran Pfitzner
The Perverse Interest in Greenland
Proponents of Annexing Greenland Are Masking Their Fantasies in the Language of Strategy
 • Kiran Pfitzner
"Hybrid War" is a Red Herring
Understanding Russian Aggression and the Perils of Jargon
 • Kiran Pfitzner
Crimes in the Caribbean and the Definition of War
"Absolute suffering would not be warfare"
 • Kiran Pfitzner
Clausewitz on Hegseth and the "Lethality" Obsession
The "Absolute Destruction" of America's Military
 • Kiran Pfitzner
The Price of Incoherence on the International Stage
What happens when you don't understand alliances?
 • Kiran Pfitzner
Dead Carl and You
Dead Carl and You
A blog dedicated to primarily to understanding and applying the works of Carl von Clausewitz. Digressions on military history, civil-military relations, nuclear strategy, and other fun things of that nature.
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