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John Boyd Didn't Understand Clausewitz
Part 1: Aims, Terrain, and the Superiority of the Defensive
 • Kiran Pfitzner
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
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
Gods and Mortals: Building a Universal Theory of War
Explaining Prussia's defeat and Russia's triumph over Napoleon
 • Kiran Pfitzner
Dead Carl Lives! - Why Clausewitz Endures
Reading and understanding Clausewitz is worth your time
 • Kiran Pfitzner
The Kaiser and His Men: Civil-Military Relations in Wilhelmine Germany
The Limits of the Military Profession - Germany 1871-1914
 • Kiran Pfitzner and Secretary of Defense Rock
The Struggle for Civilian Control in Bismarck's Germany
The Limits of the Military Profession Part 1: Prussia-Germany 1808-1871
 • Kiran Pfitzner and Secretary of Defense Rock
Realism and Reality — The Limitations of Theory
"Realists" have fallen into the same trap as French Generals before WWI
 • Kiran Pfitzner
Clausewitz On Activism: Professionalism and Parochialism
What Progressive Activists, the German General Staff, and Battlefield Earth all have in common
 • Kiran Pfitzner
The Spirit of the Age: Clausewitz on Limited and Absolute War
How the Socio-Political Defines the Militarily Possible
 • Kiran Pfitzner
The Fog of War and Value of Ambiguity
Macron's Comments, and the Value of Ruling Nothing Out
 • Kiran Pfitzner
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